C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)

The C Programming Language (K&R, 2nd Edition) — If you're digging into a verification-aware dialect of C like C*, it helps to have the canonical C reference on the desk. Kernighan and Ritchie's classic is famously terse and precise, which pairs well with reasoning carefully about what your code actually does. It's the book that still defines how most people think about pointers, memory, and the language's semantics.