This is a fun list from D McIlroy:

Cook's Travels and Other Salesmen's Tales - Dick Karp
Partition in a Pair Tree - Rabin and Scott
The Ten Best Algorithms of 1979
Ava's Hop Croft - J. D. Ullman
A Hoary Sort of Life - I. M. Quick
Basic Jumping - Uneda Goto
The Joy of Unix - wnj@ucbvax
Cossack Dances in Log Time - Arlazarov, Dinic, Kronrod, and Faradzev
Hamming it Up - D. Slepian
In Search of Perfect Hash - Craig Claiborne
The Humble Programmer - E. W. Dijkstra
Veni, Dividi, Vici - Trajan, R. E. (Roman Emperor)
A Visit from St. Nicholas - J. Ichbiah
Favorite Pebble Games - R. Sethi
The Curse of Floating Point - W. Kahan
Her Brand of Universe - Martin Davis
Death in the Wine Garden - R. Tennent
Manna from Heaven: Eventually, Why Not Now? - Stanford Saviors Circle
Modern Bayonet, Vol. 2: Fixed Point Methods - FOCS Field Manual
Johnson's Complete Works - P. Space
Crossing the Bar - J. Hartmanis
My Sin - E. Feigenbaum
The Fellowship of Bacchus - P. Naur
Balanced Logging in Binary Forests - D. E. Knuth
Gedanken Experiments Concerning Flows at High Reynolds Number - W. Burge
Black Lists and Funargs: Reliving the McCarthy Era - D. R. Hofstadter
The Importance of Being Earnest - Abrahams and Wegner
Drei Groschen Oper - Sammet, Denning, and Brandin
Fuzzylocks and the Three Fuzzy Bears - L. Zadeh
Briefing for a Recursive Descent into Hell - Benoit Mandelbrot
Eminent Programming Languages - Strachey