Good books for IT professionals

TheMechanic

Guys, please recommend any books that made an impact on your IT career. If possible, please exclude cert books. Thanks!

Balantine

Practice of System and Network Administration
Powershell 3 in a month of lunches, 2nd ed.
Cuckoo's Egg
Fortigate manuals
Network Forensics
Group Policy Fundamentals Security and the Managed Desktop
The Illustrated Network
Windows Internals
Are your lights on?
Network Analysis and Troubleshooting
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small: Being the Third Edition of Systemantics
Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
The Psychology of Problem Solving
Intelligence: a very short introduction
Some random Tom Clancy netwars book a long time ago
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Mastery by Robert Greene
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

N2IT

Windows 7 Inside and Out really taught my a ton about how the Win 7 OS actually works.
The ITIL publications from the OGC really filled in some high level knowledge gaps
PMBOK and other books related were very informative

alan2308

Network Warrior
The Art of Deception
Hacking Exposed
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1

forestgiant

Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. Every one with an inkling of technical interest should read this book.

JayTheCracker

Electronic Commerce: A Managerial and Social Networks Perspective 2012

wes allen

+1 For Cryptonomicon and Lairs and Outliers.

Will add a great primer on the history of encryption in the US - Crypto - How the Code Rebels Beat the Government

and The Accidental Guerrilla a great book on asymmetric war (which I think some hacking is a form of). I need to re read it now that I am doing a bit more with infosec though.

GOZCU

Balantine wrote: »

Practice of System and Network Administration
Powershell 3 in a month of lunches, 2nd ed.
Cuckoo's Egg
Fortigate manuals
Network Forensics
Group Policy Fundamentals Security and the Managed Desktop
The Illustrated Network
Windows Internals
Are your lights on?
Network Analysis and Troubleshooting
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small: Being the Third Edition of Systemantics
Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
The Psychology of Problem Solving
Intelligence: a very short introduction
Some random Tom Clancy netwars book a long time ago
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Mastery by Robert Greene
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

lol read none of them...

my favorites are ; ( more networking based)

Network Warrior
Practical Packet Analysis
Network Security; Firewalls and VPNs
Something about "essentials of management"
Head first SQL

paul78

I can't really say that I recommend these books. But all these books helped to shape my career. And even with the older books, I will sometimes pick them up to browse.

• Vax-II Assembly Language Programming - Sara Baase (the book that caused me to switch to software engineering instead of electrical engineering)
• UNIX Nework Programming - Richard Stevens (my most cherished tech book - I have an autographed copy)
• The C Programming Language - Kernighan/Ritchie (yes, I own a first edition)
• The C++ Programing Language - Stroustrup (another first edition - geesh I feel old)
• The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting - (I keep this by my bedside table)
• The Dilbert Principle - Scott Adams
• Design Patterns - Go4
• TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 - Wright/Stevens

Bill3rdshift

+1 Network Warrior
Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
Hacking Exposed 7
CCNA study guide by Todd Lammle
Security + by Darril Gibson

boredgamelad

+1 for Network Warrior. I started learning stuff from this book just reading through the preview on Amazon.

RobertKaucher

paul78 wrote: »

The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting - (I keep this by my bedside table)

Nothing better to help you sleep?

paul78 wrote: »

Design Patterns - Go4

I certainly second that one. I feel like after internalizing some of the ideas from that book I actually started to become a software engineer more than just a hack. But I'm probably still just a hack.

TheMechanic

Guys great stuff. I found one book particularly useful, 'The VDI Delusion'. Learned some things on terminal services. I'll research all the info put up, much thanks!

About7Narwhal

From Computer Tech to Network Administrator (and everything in between): Douglas Chick: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

It only costs $3.00 and it is great for people new to IT (if it is your kind of thing).

odysseyelite

Outside of IT books, I've read everything Jim Rohn has produced. They helped me focus on my life, career and goals.

Napolean Hill, the laws of success
The richest mand in Babylon
Napolean Hill, think and grow rich

coreyb80

I just added a few of these books to my wish list on Amazon.

coffeeluvr

odysseyelite wrote: »

Outside of IT books, I've read everything Jim Rohn has produced. They helped me focus on my life, career and goals.

Napolean Hill, the laws of success
The richest mand in Babylon
Napolean Hill, think and grow rich

"Odysseyelite", I have read all of Napoleon Hill's work...it helped me to shape my life and career. I have also read a lot of Og Mandino's work. He was inspired by Napoleon Hill.

RobertKaucher

Here are a few that I suggest for everyone from IT Pro to Dev. Cisco guys might be bored out of their skulls with the exception of the networking book, though.

Windows Sysinternals Administrators Reference, Russinovich
Windows Internals, Part 1 (Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7), Russinovich
Windows Internals, Part 2 (Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7), Russinovich
Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services, Davies
Inside Windows Debugging, Soulami

daceto

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick was a good read. Some great insight into social engineering. Plus its pretty riveting reading about his exploits.

Hypntick

Balantine wrote: »

Cuckoo's Egg

Loved this book! Not to say nothing else suggested is a good read, I just really enjoyed Cuckoo's Egg.

Diminutive

Upgrading and Repairing PCs by Mueller. I've owned several editions. Its up to the 20th edition.