Books recommended on r/sysadmin

The most-mentioned books on r/sysadmin.

The Practice of System and Network Administration
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Time Management for System Administrators
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Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook
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The Phoenix Project
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RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Study Guide
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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The Practice of Cloud System Administration
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DNS and BIND
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The Visible Ops Handbook
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Group Policy
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Network Warrior
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Getting Things Done
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide
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The Phoenix Project, 5th
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Windows Internals, Part 1
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Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2
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The Cuckoo's Egg
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Peopleware
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CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide
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Windows PowerShell Cookbook
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Mastering VMware vSphere 5
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The Goal
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Linux Bible
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Windows PowerShell in Action
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Deployment Fundamentals Vol. 6
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TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1
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Ghost in the Wires
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The No Asshole Rule
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Unix Power Tools
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Essential System Administration
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Mastering Regular Expressions
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Active Directory
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Rtfm
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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
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Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches
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TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
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Active Directory Cookbook
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Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security
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Self-Paced Training Kit
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Exam Ref 70-410 Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2
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The Art of Deception
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MCSA 70-410 Cert Guide R2
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Managing Humans
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The Linux Command Line
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Deployment Fundamentals Vol. 4
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CompTIA Network+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide
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RHCSA/RHCE Red Hat Linux Certification Practice Exams with Virtual ...
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Who Moved My Cheese?
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DAEMON
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Learning the bash Shell
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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MCITP self-paced training kit
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Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE 7 Cert Guide
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Adventures of an IT Leader
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Nagios
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Never Split the Difference
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Crucial Conversations Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High
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Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide
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Computer Networks
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Clean Code
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A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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The 48 Laws of Power
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The Checklist Manifesto
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Continuous Delivery
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Using SANs and NAS
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Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
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Windows Internals, Part 2
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Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5
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CCNA Routing and Switching Study Guide
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MCSA Windows Server 2012 R2 Complete Study Guide
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MCSA Windows Server 2016 Complete Study Guide
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Real Business of IT
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Web Operations
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Deployment Fundamentals Vol. 1
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Building Virtual Machine Labs
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sed and awk
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How Linux Works
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Learn Active Directory Management in a Month of Lunches
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Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches
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CompTIA Security+
5 users
The DevOps Handbook
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The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
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Linux Administration Handbook
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The Art of Scalability
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The Mythical Man-Month
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Classic Shell Scripting
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Backup and Recovery
4 users
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide
4 users
Data Storage Networking
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Extreme Ownership
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CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide
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Hackers
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive
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Site Reliability Engineering
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MCSA Windows Server 2016 Exam Ref 3-Pack
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Practical Malware Analysis
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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
4 users