Top 10 Must have Books for Unix and Linux Administrators

1. Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook

by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein,

2. Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix
Administration, 3rd Edition
by Æleen Frisch

3. How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know

Brian Ward

4. Linux Bible (Ninth Edn)

by Christopher Negus

5. The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction

by William E. Shotts Jr.

6. Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible

by Richard Blum and Christine Bresnahan

7. Practice of System and network Administration

by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christina J. Hogan

8. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

9. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison-Wesley Professional

Computing Series)
by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago

10. Pro Linux System Administration, by James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, Dennis
Matotek.

11. Linux System Administration, by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic.

12. Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, by Nathan Campi, Kirk Bauer.

13. The Visible Ops Handbook, by Kevin Behr, Gene Kim, George Spafford.

14. Automating System Administration with Perl, by David N. Blank-Edelman.

15. Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, by Noah Gift, Jeremy Jones.

16. Linux Firewalls, by Michael Rash.

17. Linux Patch Management: Keeping Linux Systems Up To Date

18. The Linux System Administrator’s Guide v0.9, Lars, Joanna oja, Stephen and Alex

19. Nemeth et. al, Linux System Administration

20. Unix Power Tools.