[smoyer]

"The art of electronics" by Horowitz and Hill

[mikewarot]

I've read that, it's a great book if you're already into electronics. It filled a huge knowledge void that I wasn't aware I had... but the thing that got me started was "The Boy's Second Book of Electronics", which launched me into the world of electronics in the early 1970s, before PCs were a thing.

[jazzyjackson]

in that vein, "there are no electrons: electronics for earthlings" left an impression on me and is much shorter :)

[tshirttime]

Dense, wordy, incomprehensible.