Presumptuous linkbait title. Bleh.

Can't comment on most, but I had heard of half.

For an introduction to computability theory, I much preferred Kozen (Automata and Computability) to Sipser. I thought it was a good deal cleaner in its presentation, and it contains more material.

I've heard of all of them. We have owned an earlier edition number 2 and number 3 for most of the last decade.

P.S. Has someone been reading my Amazon.com wish list to get the names of the other books on the list?

This is a sponsored listing (read: ad) on Proggit, using the poster's affiliate ID. I envy whoever thought of running that. Brilliant way to generate affiliate income.

Many reddit users (especially on Proggit) are quite averse to people posting links on Amazon with their ref.

Granted, this is different since it as a sponsored listing would give some money to Reddit and thus generate a bit more goodwill.

Still, my wild guess say the poster will be lucky to get his money back.

A couple of these were text books in my undergraduate CS program. Not exactly books nobody's heard of.

Two of them (Computer Organization and Programming Language Pragmatics) were used as textbooks at my school. :-)

I had Computer Architecture by Hennessy and Patterson as well. It comes up #1 on Amazon search for "computer architecture", so I think it's a pretty well known book.

Yep, they're right. I don't believe I've ever heard of them.

Any opinions?

I don't have a copy of Hacker's Delight, but have perused it. Appears very interesting and well-written.

Concrete Mathematics is more pleasurable to read than the first part of TAOCP which covers more or less the same material.

Introduction to the Theory of Computation is good. You can get a used copy of the first edition (on Amazon) for significantly less money than the second edition, and, being that this book is very overpriced in the first place, this might be the best way to go, unless you're really interested in some 2nd-edition improvements.

Despite the title, I've heard of several others, but haven't read them at all. The Patterson books on computer architecture are said to be good, and I've seen them on the shelves of co-workers (though they've seen a can of Spam on my shelf, and I really don't like to eat Spam, so, who's to say what a book sitting on a shelf actually indicates?)

The 7th, CTM, is a successor to SICP. It is a classic of modern times.

I've heard of the third one, Concrete Mathematics.

I vaguely remember reading of the 4th, HOPL 2, and the 5th, Computer Organisation and Design. As far as I recall, they are good actually.

I actually own Concrete Mathematics. Though I haven't read through it very seriously, what I have read has been excellent. (It was a great companion book for my Discrete Math course, whose book wasn't very good. (Discrete Mathematics and its Applications))

I might have heard of CTM before, but that's about it from this list.

I hated using the Rosen book in undergrad. Concrete Mathematics would have been fine as the sole text for such a course.

The great thing about Concrete Mathematics is that you can use it for what it is: a really cool "grab bag" of techniques.

Concrete Mathematics is fun. (You might also like _Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers_. And http://projecteuler.net !)

The HOPL book has a big paper about the history of Lisp and dozens of pages of Chuck Moore, Icon, and Prolog AI chatting in French. What more do you need? (Also: Smalltalk. C.)

CTM is the best thing ever.