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Most-mentioned books in r/sysadmin during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/sysadmin within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

12
Books ranked
45
Tracked mentions in 2021
Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions
Cover of The Phoenix Project #1

The Phoenix Project

Gene Kim

A struggling IT VP inherits a doomed project, a company on the edge of collapse, and one coworker who has quietly become the company's entire bottleneck.

25 in 2021
Cover of Time Management for System Administrators #2

Time Management for System Administrators

Thomas A. Limoncelli

A sysadmin who can't ignore his phone reads the one book r/sysadmin keeps recommending to people who are burning out.

6 in 2021
Cover of The Practice of System and Network Administration #3

The Practice of System and Network Administration

Thomas A. Limoncelli

One r/sysadmin comment tells you to buy this on the company card before you touch a single production server.

5 in 2021
Cover of C# in a Nutshell #4

C# in a Nutshell

Joseph Albahari

The O'Reilly reference that r/learnprogramming drops into C#/Unity starter lists alongside free ebooks and YouTube playlists.

1 in 2021
Cover of Getting Things Done #5

Getting Things Done

David Allen

A management consultant argues your brain is for having ideas, not storing them, and hands you a five-step system to empty it.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Body Keeps the Score #6

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

1 in 2021
Cover of The First 90 Days #7

The First 90 Days

Michael D. Watkins

You start a new job Monday with a boss expecting results by day thirty, and this book is the plan for those three months.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #8

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Practice of Cloud System Administration #9

The Practice of Cloud System Administration

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Limoncelli's sequel to the sysadmin bible, rebuilt for teams who rent their servers by the hour instead of racking them.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck #10

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Mark Manson's case that choosing what to care about is the only self-help move that actually matters.

1 in 2021
Cover of The Unicorn Project #11

The Unicorn Project

Gene Kim

A senior engineer gets exiled to a doomed payroll project and finds a rogue skunkworks team racing to save the company's flagship app before the deadline kills it.

1 in 2021
Cover of UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook #12

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook

Evi Nemeth

A five-edition reference guide sysadmins have called 'the bible' since Evi Nemeth wrote the first one in 1989.

1 in 2021