The C Programming Language by two really smart guys
The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie is one of the best books I've ever read.
The manner of instruction and the pace it sets is great. There are good explanations on pretty much every subject covered and gotcha's are pointed out whenever there is one. Considering that Ritchie is the creator of the C language and Kernighan is one of the contributors of the original Unix system it's not surprising that the book is so thorough.
The book is small, it's not meant to teach you everything about programming in C, but it's meant to teach you how to use C to express your programming needs. And it does a damn good job of it. The exercises it gives as problems after code listings aren't crap one off programs that you'd write because it's just in the book. But some of them are actually rather useful. For example, The Word Counting (listing 1.5.4) example is a program existing on unix and it's great to see a program that actually exists in the 'real world' of Unix.
I've done a couple of the Exercises out and I've enjoyed it thoroughly so far. I highly recommend purchasing the book or downloading the pdf from the link I provided above.
https://gist.github.com/EJEHardenberg/5931082
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