Literature for techs

E Double U

I'm putting together my holiday wish list and I plan to add Ghost In The Wires to it. Looking for some recommendations of other good nerd books that are not sci-fi or cert related.

PC509

Other books exist? I've been on the cert and education book thing for quite a while...

What kind of books? I'm currently reading Yeager (Chuck Yeager autobiography). Looking into a book my son recommended next: City of Thieves.

If you're into video games, Console Wars is a great one. Mostly focuses on Sega, but hits Atari, Nintendo and NEC a bit, too.

NetworkNewb

Spam Nation looks interesting

xxxkaliboyxxx

If your into music, I would recommand "Room Full of Mirrors", a bio of Jimmi Hendrix. Very fantastic book and a look into the world of a rock star. That dude had some issues as well.

mgeoffriau

If you've never read it, The Cuckoo's Egg is a fantastic book.

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787

PJ_Sneakers

Define nerd books.

PC509

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NavyMooseCCNA

I just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke's "Space Odyssey" series. The 2001 and 2010 books were far superior to the films. I just started reading the Jack Reacher series.

chrisone

I think you should read great literature in general and not just techie stuff. So my list goes like this.

How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
7 Habits of highly effective people - Stephen R. Covey
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker (The entire HBR "Harvard Business Review" collection is great too)
Made in America - Sam Walton
On the shortness of life - Seneca
Checklist Manifesto - Atu Gawande
Organize your mind, organize your life - Margarete Moore.
The willpower instinct - Kelly McGonigal

Just a shortlist of awesome literature that has changed my life.

IaHawk

Here is a list I've put together, with more of a security focus. Also, included a link to Palo Alto's list they update yearly.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-research/cybercanon

The Cuckoo's Egg (Stoll)
Kingpin (Kevin Poulsen)
Ghost (Kevin Mitnick)
Countdown to Zero Day (Zetter)


Social Engineering (Hadnagy)
Counter Hack Reloaded (Skoudis and Liston)
Enterprise Security Architecture: A Business-Driven Approach (Sherwood)
The Tangled Web (Zalewski)
Hacking Exposed
The Hacker Playbook 2 (Kim)

2491215

^^ +1 for Kingpin! ^^

PC509

Also some techie style books:

Mark Russinovich from SysInternals (now part of Microsoft) wrote a couple very good books. Trojan Horse and Zero Day. Both were very excellent books, technically accurate, and good reads. Scary as when Zero Day was released was when Stuxnet was being widely reported. Pretty good timing and a bit creepy at the time.

xxxkaliboyxxx

The bible....

E Double U

Thanks for the recommendations! Some good stuff mentioned here.

@ chrisone - 48 Laws of Power is one of my favorite books

Verities

Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

dmoore44

Any book written by Neal Stephenson is worth a read.
The Expanse series by James SA Corey is a pretty decent distraction.
The Martian by Andy Weir was hysterical.
Geekonomics by David Rice was enlightening.
Tubes by Andrew Blum was a fun read.

dontstop

Some I've read and others are on my reading list:

Work Rules
The No ar5eh0le <-- (avoid profanity filter) Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Visible Ops Handbook
The Mythical Man Month
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary [xxx]
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
How Google Works
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steve Jobs
Where Wizards Stay up Late

alias454

@chrisone -- How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie might be the greatest social engineering book of all time

OctalDump

One that's a bit more "out there": the Bhagavad Gita. It's full of cool quotes, that you can throw randomly into conversation. Probably the most famous is "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." which was used by Robert Oppenheimer when he witnessed the first atomic explosion.

[Deleted User]

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers

Another book I remember was iWoz I believe?! Something like that.

aaahhh the Cuckoo's Egg. That brings me back to college! Had to read that in my Network Security class. Had to write a paper for it also! Man the nestolga it's killing me

tedjames

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/1449388396/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480348738&sr=8-1&keywords=steven+levy+hackers

I really enjoyed this. If you liked The Secret History of Hacking, you'll love this book.

E Double U

More good stuff. Thanks guys!