What to Read After Code
Readers who loved Code by Charles Petzold keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Code is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Code
Coders at work
Programming Pearls
The elements of computing systems
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
Beautiful Code
The Little Schemer
Nine algorithms that changed the future
Code Complete
Pragmatic Programmer
JavaScript
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Elements of programming
The algorithm design manual
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
A discipline of programming
Hacker's delight
The art of UNIX programming
Land of Lisp
Compilers, principles, techniques, and tools
A Mind for Numbers
Masters of Doom
The Mythical Man-Month