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by SamReidHughes 2885 days ago
This book is not completionist but instead it's to the point and avoids wasting your time: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/155558179X/

[Edit: it's Building an Optimizing Compiler by Bob Morgan.]

That's assuming you don't want to waste your time reading about parsing, type checking, or serializing an AST into some form of assembly, the parts of a compiler which just aren't that interesting.