A Unix Administrator's Bookshelf

These titles came about from a discussion on the Italian Facebook Group VUA. I'm leaving them here (minus the obviously jocular titles), as a form of public service.

Technical

• "The C programming language" Kerningham, Ritchie
• "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment","UNIX Network Programming" Stevens
• "Modern Operating Systems","Computer Networks" Tanenbaum
• "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook" Evi Nemeth et al.
• "Programming Perl", "Learning Perl", "Perl Cookbook" O' Reilly Media publishing
• "Modern Perl" Chromatic
• "Programming Python", "Learning Python", "Python Cookbook" O' Reilly Media publishing
• "The Art of capacity planning:scaling web resources" J.Allspaw

Conceptual

• "The Art of Computer Programming" Knuth
• "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid", Hofstadter

Essays & Journalism

• "In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters" Chapman
• "Spaghetti Hacker" Monti, Chiccarelli
• "Microservi", D. Coupland
• "Come Funziona Google" Schmidt, Rosenberg
• "The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win" Kim, Behr, Spafford

Inspirational

• "L'arte di insultare" e "L'arte di avere ragione" Arthur Schopenhauer
• "2001: A Space Odissey", A.C. Clarke
• "IT", S. King