Well I remember reading in one or two sittings "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" by John Markov and Katie Hafner just before I discovered The Cuckoo's Egg and both gripped me in the same way.

I read Cuckoo’s Egg and also liked “The Soul of a New Machine”, “SkunkWorks”, and “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”.

I must have read this 100 times when I was a little kid interested in programming in the late 80s / early 90s.