What are the best books to learn hacking?

BOOKS There's many ways to learn ethical hacking. You can learn to hack through Trust me though, there's a lot of hacking books out there, some good, some not so good. So what I've done is select the twenty best hacking books based on popularity and the general consensus on some of the hacking subreddits.

This is the best of the best if you like, but they're not in any specific order. I do however have a favourite that I will reveal at the end of the post.