You just knew it just as soon you reached your second year doing system programming for any platforms, be it Unix, Windows, legacy or any proprietary systems. Every programmer dreams of having his or her own library, stacked with variety books and references on programming, operating systems, networking, algorithms, methodologies and specific computing technologies.
While theoretically you can get any books from a local bookstore or order online, you still have to balance the cost and relevance of these books to you and your work, otherwise you will end up stacking with unused books which you will without any choice disposed at a later date. The choice of books usually depends on the particular area of your work and interests, in some cases the books you have just build up as time goes by. But there are really books that you can't live without, these are so called programmer's bibles. They're precious and of endless importance to what you do. For system programmers like me, these are the top of my list.
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