• Fred Schneider's reading list
• Ken Birman's reading list
• Garth Gibson's reading list, Dave's list is similar
• UC Berkeley's OS prilim reading list
• Emin Gun Sirer's P2P reading list
• Mema Roussopoulos' P2P reading list
• Ben Zhao's reading list 1 and reading list 2

• Dave Andersen's reading list
• Srini Seshan's reading list
• Hari Balakrishnan's reading list
• Ion Stoica's reading list
• Paul Francis' reading list

• Richard Hamming: You and Your Research.
• Manuel Blum: Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student.
• Marie desJardins: How to Be a Good Graduate Student.
• Mike Dahlin: Advice to systems researchers.
• Randy Pausch: Time Management.
• Collected Advice on Research and Writing.
• Usenix Slide Guide.
• Mor Harcol-Balter: Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Computer Science.

Voltaire: The multitude of books is making us ignorant.