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I thought the most popular book no-one ever read was Knuth's "The Art of Programming".

And SICP.

SICP? SICP is actually readable and quite interesting. I did it. And it is not nearly as widely known as TAP in the outer world.

I actually have a modified version of SICP being used as a textbook for one of my classes -- it's called Composing Programs.