I was looking for the best linux book. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance

At what level and for what purpose?

For a comprehensive intro it is difficult to beat the Linux Bible. Even old editions form your local used bookstore are a pretty good start.

Remember that to get any good out of your books on Linux, you must do more than READ them. You must try some of the things you read about, and other things that your readings make you want to try. Just heed the warnings.

Every distro has a bible (usually called *** Unleashed or Idiot's Guide to ***).

The best general Linux book that I know is Running Linux, but it's very old.

Highly applicable for your question.

Meanwhile:Agreed. And personally I feel immersion with a distribution as well as focused searching for individual topics may be far more successful of a path versus reading something comprehensive which was organized by someone else. Find your own organization, your own way to recall and remember things, and then grow your knowledge base.

O’Reilly’s Unix In A Nutshell

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I recently bought new Linux books that I can recommend. Both books were bought at the "Barnes & Noble Bookstore," chain.

1. " Linux,fully illustrated using Linux Mint, 6th. Edition, in easy steps," by Mike McGrath. Published by "In Easy Steps Limited, in 2018.

The "Linux" book is more for the beginner with Linux distros.

2. "Linux Pocket Guide, Essential Commands, Third Edition," by Daniel J. Barrett. Published by "O'Reilly, in 2016

Hope one, or both of,these two selections will help you.

No recommendation to check out O'Reilly's is ever out of order. They have the very best technical references, but not cheap. Check their free e-books as well: somewhat dated, thus the free, but still excellent.

Someone referenced my recommendation for the Linux Bible and "Idiots Guide" to in the same line. I was not talking about the Idiots Guide series. There is a line of excellent references called the Linux Bible with distribution specific versions "Red Hat Bible", "Ubuntu Bible", and "Debian Bible" at least. These are comprehensive, suitable for beginners with topics instructional for more advanced readers as well, easy to read, and often come with electronic resources (CD or DVD, and online data at the website). I find these FAR better resources than the "Idiots Guide" series, which I do NOT recommend.

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Linux in a Nutshell used with the command line will get you going on understanding GNU/Linux.

Recommend you also learn about vi, sed, & awk.

Having arrived at awk, I feel no more reluctance to recommend Richard Stevenson... (for a reason I always think of “Little Stevens”, but there must be something like a “little” Stevenson, somewhere. An abridged edition, maybe..?)