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• A Practical Guide To Linux by Mark Sobell.

  Awesome! The first half is a very good introduction to UNIX in general, with install, admin, etc stuff covered pretty well. The second half is an alphabetic command reference -- with EXAMPLES! (IMHO the biggest failing of most man pages is not including a few examples.) The index is very solid, and the stuff on shell scripting is very nice.
  --Joshua Barratt

  I concur. This book is nicely written. I'm reading it right now. Sobel does a good job in teaching by example and keeping his writing interesting. This is not just a plain how-to book. However, I think that the section about X and GUI is poorly done. That doesnt matter though, because you can find X/GUI resources by searching the web.
  --tchow

  I'll put my vote in too for "A Practical Guide to Linux".
  --Leston Buell

• man(1)

  Two thumbs up! An absolute must-read! To access this extensive plethora of documentation, just type "man foo" at the Linux commandline, where foo is the name of a command you want to learn more about.
  --Dan Helfman

• Linux A-Z by Phil Cornes

  This is my personal favorite. I found it to be extremely newbie friendly, and it evens talks about programming in Linux.
  --Mark Fasheh

• Linux in a Nutshell by Ellen Siever

  It seemed to me that this had a better index than "Unix in a Nutshell" and that things were much easier to find. One thing I don't really like about either is that you generally have to know what the name of a command is before you can find anything.
  --Leston Buell

Unix / System Administration / Ritual Animal Sacrifices

• Essential System Administration by AEleen Frisch

  I bought this too -- badass. Not all specific to Linux, but it all applies and the 2nd edition is very nice.
  --Joshua Barratt

• UNIX in a Nutshell by Daniel Gilly

  Also not Linux specific, but this is my favourite general reference.
  --Glenn Glazer

  Good all-around reference.
  --Joshua Uziel

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume I by W. Richard Stevens

  Info on how TCP/IP works.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Computer Networks, 3rd Edition by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Great general networking book.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Unix System Administrators Handbook by Nemeth, Seebass, (and two more)

  One of the best sysadmin books out there. Best I know of at least.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Unix Internals: The New Frontiers by Vahalia

  Terrific (but slightly advanced) OS book.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Operating Systems Concepts by Silbershatz & Galvin

  Good OS book... starts decently from the beginning.
  --Joshua Uziel

Programming

• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens

  Terrific system calls book.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Unix Network Programming, Volume I by W. Richard Stevens

  Great for socket (and a few others) programming info.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, et al.

  I very extremely highly recommend this if you're at all interested in object-oriented programming (OOP). The book is pretty advanced, so learn OOP before you read it. It brings together all kinds of different concepts and strategies of object-oriented design into one catalog of 23 design patterns.
  --Dan Helfman

• The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie

  Classic C programming text... the one I take with me.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Expert C Programming by Peter Van Der Linden

  Great book... when you think you've got the K&R book down, go here.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Learning Perl by Randall Schwartz, et al.

  Terrific book for doing what the title says.
  --Joshua Uziel

• Programming Perl by Larry Wall

  Great reference on the subject, written by the man...
  --Joshua Uziel

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