| Title | Authors | ISBN |
| Modern Compiler Implementation in C | Andrew W. Appel and Maia Ginsburg | 978-0-521-60765-0 | [this is my current textbook] |
| Modern Compiler Implementation in Java | Andrew W. Appel and Jens Palsberg | 978-0-521-82060-8 |
| Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools | Alfred Aho, Monica Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey Ullman | 978-0-321-48681-1 | [this is a classic] |
| Programming Language Processor | David A. Watt | 0-13-720129-X |
| Programming Language Processor in Java | David A. Watt and Deryck Brown | 978-0-130-25786-4 | [the Java version of the preceeding book] |
| Crafting a Compiler | Charles Fischer, Ron Cytron, and Richard LeBlanc | 978-0136067050 |
| Crafting a Compiler in C | Charles Fischer and Richard LeBlanc | 987-0805321661 | [C version of above book] |
| Flex & Bison | John Levine | 978-0-596-15597-1 | [reference on flex and bison by O'Reilly] |