One of the enduring memories of bumbling through my first few months as an undergrad was coming upon a torn, well-read copy of the Dragon Book in the institute library. To date, it remains one of the best pieces of CS literature I have read.
Seven years down the line, it feels strangely warm to read those names again.
The Dragon book is great! That book opened my mind onto how compilers "do it" when I was a starting college.
That being said, their book on Data Structures and Algorithms is severely underrated. It doesn't go in depth like more classical texts like Cormen and doesn't condense infinite knowledge in each paragraph like Knuth does, but it's a very nice read that goes from simple data structures to secondary memory and it's really easy to read.
I've been out of college for a looking time. I'm not a particularly nostalgic person, but there are a couple books I still have from college, and the Dragon Book is still one I like to read.
Seven years down the line, it feels strangely warm to read those names again.