Over the years, I’ve accumulated a few computer books, some of which sit on the top shelf of the bookcase behind my desk.
Cormen et al. – the canonical text for an undergraduate algorithms course. Bob Metcalfe’s PhD dissertation on packet switching. Brian Kernighan’s memoir about developing Unix at Bell Labs. The Soul of a New Machine, which won the Pulitzer for nonfiction in 1982.
And, of course, Mac Programming for Dummies.