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Books & long-form works about Software engineering

Every link here is both a book or long-form work and about software engineering.

Hall of Fame: 13
Candidates: 13
Median span: 9.1 yrs
First seen: 2007

Strongest Hall records

13 items

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-25

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

pages.cs.wisc.edu 20 submissions · 17 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2021-02-07

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Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

eloquentjavascript.net 14 submissions · 14 people · 18.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2014-07 Resurfaced 2024-03-07

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2025-12-08

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Learn C and build your own Lisp

www.buildyourownlisp.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-08-05

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The Tao of Programming (1987)

www.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 10.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-27

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Little book about OS development (2015) [pdf]

littleosbook.github.io 10 submissions · 10 people · 10.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2025-03-21

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Practical Common Lisp (2005)

www.gigamonkeys.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-29

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The internals of PostgreSQL

www.interdb.jp 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-01 Resurfaced 2025-03-03

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Beautiful Racket (2016)

beautifulracket.com 11 submissions · 9 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-05 Resurfaced 2022-05-12

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Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)

beej.us 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2023-03-28

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Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

composingprograms.com 7 submissions · 6 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-07 Resurfaced 2020-11-08

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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

cs3110.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

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Practical Common Lisp (2005)

www.gigamonkeys.com 9 submissions · 7 people · 19.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-01 Resurfaced 2026-05-29

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In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

web.stanford.edu 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-07 Resurfaced 2025-12-08

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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

web.mit.edu 17 submissions · 16 people · 15.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-03 Resurfaced 2025-08-25

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Learn C and build your own Lisp

www.buildyourownlisp.com 11 submissions · 11 people · 11.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-06 Resurfaced 2025-08-05

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OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

cs3110.github.io 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-07-26

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Candidates

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A book series on JavaScript

github.com 10 submissions · 10 people · 11.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-06-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (2015)

www.redbook.io 12 submissions · 12 people · 10.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

sysprog21.github.io 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-27

Needs:5 submissions

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Modern C [pdf]

icube-icps.unistra.fr 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-11-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Rouille

github.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-23

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Elements of Programming (2009)

elementsofprogramming.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)

mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io 4 submissions · 3 people · 4.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-03-22

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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The Rustonomicon

doc.rust-lang.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Learn Vim (2021)

github.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-02-24

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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The Rust Performance Book (2020)

nnethercote.github.io 4 submissions · 4 people · 5.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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The Fuzzing Book

www.fuzzingbook.org 4 submissions · 3 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-19

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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The BEAM Book (2017)

blog.stenmans.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-05-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Counterexamples in Type Systems: programs that crash, segfault or explode (2021)

counterexamples.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions3 active years

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