Books General Author Title Comments James Kurose & Keith Ross Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Great for beginners Andrew S. Tanenbaum Computer Networks Commonly used by academic networking courses Richard Stevens TCP/IP illustrated Linux Author Title Comments Richard Stevens UNIX Network Programming OccupyTheWeb Linux Basics for Hackers: Getting Started with Networking, Scripting, and Security in Kali Includes a chapter on wireless networking Evi Nemeth & Garth Snyder & Trent R. Hein & Ben Whaley & Dan Mackin UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook A great book on Linux and there is a dedicated chapter for Linux networking