Hacker Bookshelf
This is a collection of books I have found to be useful, or which are on my to-read list. I did not write/publish/etc of any of them. If you find links that are broken, or think something should be added, feel free to
let me know.
Blue Team / Defense Cryptography Databases Exploiting Forensics Hacking Industrial / SCADA Machine Learning / AI Malware Mobile Networking OS: Generic OS: Linux OS: Mac OS: Windows Physical Security / Lockpicking Programming Reverse Engineering Secure Code Review Security Social Engineering / Organisations Web Legacy Future Releases
Blue Team / Defense
Applied Incident Response
Released: 2020 (1st edition)
Author(s): Steve Anson
Price: $35
Cryptography
Cryptography Apocalypse
Preparing for the Day When Quantum Computing Breaks Today's Crypto
Released: 2019 (1st edition)
Author(s): Roger A. Grimes
Price: $25
Serious Cryptography
A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption
Released: 2018 (1st edition)
Author(s): Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Price: $50
Bulletproof SSL and TLS
Understanding and Deploying SSL/TLS and PKI to Secure Servers and Web Applications
Released: 2015 (1st edition)
Author(s): Ivan Ristic
Price: $50
Introduction to Modern Cryptography
Released: 2014 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Jonathan Katz, Yehuda Lindell
Price: $25
Computational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography
Released: 2013 (1st edition)
Author(s): Song Y. Yan
Price: $95
Cryptography Engineering
Design Principles and Practical Applications
Released: 2010 (1st edition)
Author(s): Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno
Price: $35
The Code Book
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Released: 2000 (1st edition)
Author(s): Simon Singh
Price: $10
The Codebreakers
The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
Released: 1996 (1st edition)
Author(s): David Kahn
Price: $50
Databases
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals
Developer Reference
Released: 2013 (1st edition)
Author(s): Kalen Delaney, Bob Beauchemin, Conor Cunningham, Jonathan Kehayias, Paul S. Randal, Benjamin Nevarez
Price: $55
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals
Developer Reference
Released: 2009 (1st edition)
Author(s): Kalen Delaney, Paul S. Randal, Kimberly L. Tripp, Conor Cunninghan, Adam Machanic, Benjamin Nevarez
Price: $60
SQL Server Forensic Analysis
Released: 2008 (1st edition)
Author(s): Kevvie Fowler
Price: $60
The Database Hacker's Handbook
Defending Database Servers
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): David Litchfield, Chris Anley, John Heasman, Bill Grindlay
Price: $30
Exploiting
A Bug Hunter's Diary
A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Tobias Klein
Price: $30
A Guide to Kernel Exploitation
Attacking the Core
Released: 2010 (1st edition)
Author(s): Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani
Price: $35
The Art of Exploitation
Released: 2008 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Jon Erickson
Price: $25
The Shellcoder's Handbook
Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
Released: 2007 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Chris Anley, John Heasman, Felix Lindner, Gerardo Richarte
Price: $35
Writing Security Tools and Exploits
Released: 2006 (1st edition)
Author(s): James C. Foster, VIncent T. Liu
Price: $45
Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding
Reverse Engineering Exploits and Tool Coding for Security Professionals
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): James C. Foster
Price: $55
Buffer Overflow Attacks
Detect, Exploit, Prevent
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): James C. Foster, Vitaly Osipov
Price: $40
Forensics
Investigating Cryptocurrencies
Understanding, Extracting, and Analyzing Blockchain Evidence
Released: 2018 (1st edition)
Author(s): Nick Furneaux
Price: $45
The Art of Memory Forensics
Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, Aaron Walters
Price: $55
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey
Price: $45
File System Forensic Analysis
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Brian Carrier
Price: $55
Forensic Discovery
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Dan Farmer, Wietse Venema
Price: $50
Real Digital Forensics
Computer Security and Incident Response
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Keith J. Jones, Richard Bejtlich, Curtis W. Rose
Price: $60
Hacking
Advanced Penetration Testing
Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks
Released: 2017 (1st edition)
Author(s): Wil Allsopp
Price: $35
Gray Hat Hacking
The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2015 (4th edition)
Author(s): Daniel Regalado, Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathan Ness, Branko Spasojevic, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims
Price: $40
The Hacker Playbook 2
Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
Released: 2015 (1st edition)
Author(s): Peter Kim
Price: $20
Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Ben Clark
Price: $10
Penetration Testing
A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Georgia Weidman
Price: $35
Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Robert W. Beggs
Price: $45
Metasploit
The Penetration Tester's Guide
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): David Kennedy, Jim O'Gorman, Devon Keams, Mati Aharoni
Price: $40
Industrial / SCADA
Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security
Released: 2016 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Robert Radvanovsky, Jacob Brodsky
Price: $115
Hacking Exposed Industrial Control Systems
ICS and SCADA Security Secrets & Solutions
Released: 2016 (1st edition)
Author(s): Clint Bodungen, Bryan Singer, Aaron Shbeeb, Kyle Wilhoit, Stephen Hilt
Price: $50
Countdown to Zero Day
Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Released: 2015 (1st edition)
Author(s): Kim Zetter
Price: $10
Industrial Network Security
Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems
Released: 2014 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Eric D. Knapp, Joel Thomas Langill
Price: $60
Robust Control System Networks
How to achieve reliable control after Stuxnet
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Ralph Langner
Price: $60
Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems
SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Tyson Macaulay, Bryan L. Singer
Price: $75
Machine Learning / AI
Machine Learning and Security
Protecting Systems with Data and Algorithms
Released: 2018 (1st edition)
Author(s): Clarence Chio, David Freeman
Price: $45
Malware
Practical Malware Analysis
The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig
Price: $45
The Rootkit Arsenal
Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System
Released: 2012 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Bill Blunden
Price: $50
Malware Analyst's Cookbook
Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code
Released: 2010 (1st edition)
Author(s): Michael Ligh, Steven Adair, Blake Hartstein, Matthew Richard
Price: $40
Malware Forensics
Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code
Released: 2008 (1st edition)
Author(s): Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey, James M. Aquilina
Price: $55
Designing BSD Rootkits
An Introduction to Kernel Hacking
Released: 2007 (1st edition)
Author(s): Joseph Kong
Price: $25
The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Peter Szor
Price: $40
Rootkits
Subverting the Windows Kernel
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Greg Hoglund, Jamie Butler
Price: $45
Malicious Cryptography
Exposing Cryptovirology
Released: 2004 (1st edition)
Author(s): Adam Young, Moti Yung
Price: $20
Mobile
iOS Application Security
The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers
Released: 2016 (1st edition)
Author(s): David Thiel
Price: $35
The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2015 (1st edition)
Author(s): Dominic Chell, Tyrone Erasmus, Shaun Colley, Ollie Whitehouse
Price: $50
Android Security Internals
An In-Depth Guide to Android's Security Architecture
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Nikolay Elenkov
Price: $38
Android Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Joshua J. Drake, Zach Lanier, Collin Mulliner, Pau Oliva Fora, Stephen A. Ridley, Georg Wicherski
Price: $40
iOS Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, Stefan Esser, Vincenzo Iozzo, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
Price: $35
Decompiling Android
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Godfrey Nolan
Price: $40
Networking
Practical Packet Analysis
Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
Released: 2017 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Chris Sanders
Price: $30
Wireshark for Security Professionals
Using Wireshark and the Metasploit Framework
Released: 2017 (1st edition)
Author(s): Jessey Bullock, Jeff T. Parker
Price: $30
Computer Networking
A Top-Down Approach
Released: 2016 (7th edition)
Author(s): Jim Kurose, Keith Ross
Price: $160
Mastering Nmap Scripting Engine
Released: 2015 (1st edition)
Author(s): Paulino Calderon Pale
Price: $45
The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
Understanding Incident Detection and Response
Released: 2013 (1st edition)
Author(s): Richard Bejtlich
Price: $35
Applied Network Security Monitoring
Collection, Detection, and Analysis
Released: 2013 (1st edition)
Author(s): Chris Sanders, Jason Smith
Price: $40
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
Released: 2011 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens
Price: $60
OS: Generic
Computer Organization and Design
The Hardware Software Interface: ARM Edition
Released: 2016 (1st edition)
Author(s): David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
Price: $85
Modern Operating Systems
Released: 2014 (4th edition)
Author(s): Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos
Price: $180
Computer Organization and Design
The Hardware/Software Interface
Released: 2013 (5th edition)
Author(s): David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
Price: $80
Operating System Concepts
Released: 2012 (9th edition)
Author(s): Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
Price: $150
Operating Systems In Depth
Design and Programming
Released: 2010 (1st edition)
Author(s): Thomas W. Doeppner
Price: $150
OS: Linux
Linux Kernel Development
A thorough guide to the design and implementation of the Linux kernel
Released: 2010 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Robert Love
Price: $40
The Linux Programming Interface
A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook
Released: 2010 (1st edition)
Author(s): Michael Kerrisk
Price: $65
Solaris Internals
Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture
Released: 2006 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Richard McDougall
Price: $35
Linux Device Drivers
Released: 2005 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
Price: $30
Understanding the Linux Kernel
Released: 2005 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
Price: $45
OS: Mac
MacOS and iOS Internals
Volume III: Security & Insecurity
Released: 2016 (1st edition)
Author(s): Jonathan Levin
Price: $75
Mac OS X and iOS Internals
To the Apple's Core
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Jonathan Levin
Price: $30
OS X and iOS Kernel Programming
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke
Price: $55
The Mac Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2009 (1st edition)
Author(s): Charlie Miller, Dino Dai Zovi
Price: $35
Mac OS X Internals
A Systems Approach
Released: 2006 (1st edition)
Author(s): Amit Singh
Price: $95
OS: Windows
Windows Internals
Part 1: System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more
Released: 2017 (7th edition)
Author(s): Pavel Yosifovich, Alex Ionescu, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon
Price: $40
Windows 10 Forensic Analysis
Released: 2016 (1st edition)
Author(s): Rhys P J Evans
Price: $50
Windows System Programming
Released: 2015 (4th edition)
Author(s): Johnson M. Hart
Price: $65
Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit
Advanced Analysis Techniques for Windows 8
Released: 2014 (4th edition)
Author(s): Harlan Carvey
Price: $55
Windows Forensic Analysis Toolkit
Advanced Analysis Techniques for Windows 7
Released: 2012 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Harlan Carvey
Price: $60
What Makes It Page?
The Windows 7 (x64) Virtual Memory Manager
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Enrico Martignetti
Price: $25
Windows Via C/C++
Released: 2007 (5th edition)
Author(s): Jeffrey Richter, Christophe Nasarre
Price: $40
Windows NT Device Driver Development
Released: 1998 (1st edition)
Author(s): Peter G. Viscarola, W. Anthony Mason
Price: $30
Windows NT File System Internals
A Developer's Guide
Released: 1997 (1st edition)
Author(s): Rajeev Nagar
Price: $10
Physical Security / Lockpicking
Practical Lock Picking
A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide
Released: 2012 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Deviant Ollam
Price: $35
Keys to the Kingdom
Impressioning, Privilege Escalation, Bumping, and Other Key-Based Attacks Against Physical Locks
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): Deviant Ollam
Price: $35
Programming
Black Hat Python
Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Justin Seitz
Price: $25
Threat Modeling
Designing for Security
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Adam Shostack
Price: $50
Violent Python
A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers and Security Engineers
Released: 2012 (1st edition)
Author(s): TJ O'Connor
Price: $35
CLR via C#
Released: 2012 (4th edition)
Author(s): Jeffrey Richter
Price: $40
Hacker's Delight
Released: 2012 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Henry S. Warren
Price: $50
Gray Hat Python
Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers
Released: 2009 (1st edition)
Author(s): Justin Seitz
Price: $30
Assembly Language Step-by-step
Programming with Linux
Released: 2009 (3rd edition)
Author(s): Jeff Duntemann
Price: $45
Surreptitious Software
Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection
Released: 2009 (1st edition)
Author(s): Christian Collberg, Jasvir Nagra
Price: $60
ATL Internals: Working with ATL 8
Released: 2006 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Christopher Tavares, Kirk Fertitta, Brent E. Rector, Chris Sells
Price: $60
Essential COM
Released: 1998 (1st edition)
Author(s): Don Box
Price: $20
The C Programming Language
Released: 1988 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Price: $55
Reverse Engineering
Practical Reverse Engineering
x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet, Elias Bachaalany, Sébastien Josse
Price: $40
Decompiling Java
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Godfrey Nolan
Price: $50
The IDA Pro Book
The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler
Released: 2011 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Chris Eagle
Price: $50
Hacker Disassembling Uncovered
Released: 2007 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Kris Kaspersky
Price: $145
BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered
Released: 2006 (1st edition)
Author(s): Darmawan Salihun
Price: $195
Reversing
Secrets of Reverse Engineering
Released: 2005 (1st edition)
Author(s): Eldad Eilam
Price: $30
Secure Code Review
Secure Coding in C and C++
SEI Series in Software Engineering
Released: 2013 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Robert C. Seacord
Price: $50
The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java
SEI Series in Software Engineering
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Fred Long, Dhruv Mohindra, Robert C. Seacord, Dean F. Sutherland, David Svoboda
Price: $50
The Art of Software Security Assessment
Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities
Released: 2006 (1st edition)
Author(s): Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh
Price: $65
Security
Secrets and Lies
Digital Security in a Networked World
Released: 2015 (15th edition)
Author(s): Bruce Schneier
Price: $25
Security Engineering
A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
Released: 2008 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Ross J. Anderson
Price: $70
Social Engineering / Organisations
Social Engineering
The Science of Human Hacking
Released: 2018 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Christopher Hadnagy
Price: $25
Advanced Persistent Threat Hacking
The Art and Science of Hacking Any Organization
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Tyler Wrightson
Price: $35
The Art of Intrusion
The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
Released: 2005 (60282nd edition)
Author(s): Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
Price: $15
The Art of Deception
Controlling the Human Element of Security
Released: 2003 (1st edition)
Author(s): Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
Price: $15
Web
The Browser Hacker's Handbook
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Wade Alcorn, Christian Frichot, Michele Orru
Price: $50
Burp Suite Essentials
Released: 2014 (1st edition)
Author(s): Akash Mahajan
Price: $25
The Tangled Web
A Guide to Securing Modern Webapplications
Released: 2011 (1st edition)
Author(s): Michal Zalewski
Price: $35
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook
Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws
Released: 2011 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto
Price: $35
Legacy
Practical Cryptography
Released: 2003 (1st edition)
Author(s): Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier
Price: $35
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Released: 1996 (1st edition)
Author(s): Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
Price: $50
Applied Cryptography
Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C
Released: 1995 (2nd edition)
Author(s): Bruce Schneier
Price: $25