The Hacker's Underground Handbook

The Hacker's Underground Handbook by David Melnichuk is very good hacking learning book. The Hacker’s Underground Handbook starts off with the very basics with topics like programming and Linux. It then moves on to introduce and teach the topics of 
* password cracking
* phishing
* network hacking
* wireless hacking
* malware
* Windows hacking

All this material fully packed with images, thus being a top step-by-step guide, on the course of which you cannot fail. And Once you complete reading this book, the author explains where to go from there and how to keep learning. You will never again be lost and overwhelmed by all the hacking information out there.