Below is a list of books that I have purchased and read over my career:
General Web Design/CSS/XHTML/DHTML/JavaScript:
- Bulletproof Web Design - Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by Dan Cederholm - Second Edition
- CSS Mastery - Advanced Web Standards Solutions, by Andy Budd with Cameron Moll & Simon Collison
- CSS, DHTML & AJAX, by Jason Cranford Teague - Fourth Edition
- Web Design in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference, by Jennifer Niederst- Second Edition
- Web Style Guide - Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton - Second Edition
- Sam's Teach Yourself XML in 10 Minutes, by Andrew H. Watt
- Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, by Nicholas C. Zakas - Second Edition
Search Engine Optimization/Web Analytics/Web Usability
- Search Engine Optimization - An Hour A Day, by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin - Second edition
- Call to Action - Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results, by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg with Lisa T. Davis
- Actionable Web Analytics - Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions, by Jason Burby and Shane Atchison
- Web Analytics Demystified, by Eric T. Peterson
- Professional Search Engine Optimization with PhP - A Developers Guide to SEO, by Jaimia Sirovich and Cristian Darie
- Prioritizing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger
- Don't Make Me Think - A Common Since Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krugg - Second Edition
Flash and ActionScript:
- Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex, by Steve Webster, Todd Yard, and Sean McSharry
- Macromedia Flash MX Bible, by Robert Reinhardt and Snow Dowd
- Macromedia Director MX 2004 Bible, by Brian Underahl, John R. Nyquist, and Robert Martin
Dynamic Web Sites, PhP, MySQL, ASP, J2EE
- Expert one-on-one J2EE Design and Development, by Rod Johnson
- The Java EE 5 Tutorial, by Sun Microsystems
- ASP.Net 3.5 in C# and VB, by Imar Spaanjaars
- PhP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites, by Larry Ullman
- Professional Search Engine Optimization with PhP - A Developers Guide to SEO, by Jaimia Sirovich and Cristian Darie
- Active Server Pages for Dummies, by Bill Harfield - Second Edition
General Graphical User Interface Design
- After Effects 7.0 Studio Techniques, by Mark Christiansen
- Motif Programming in the X Window System Environment, by William A Parrette
- The Shell hackers Guide to X and Motif Custom Power Tools & Window Manager Tricks, by Alan Southerton
- The Definitive Guides to the X Window System Volume 6A - Motif Programming Manual, by Dan Heller & Paula M. Ferguson
- OpenGL Superbible, by Richard S. Wright, JR., Benjamin Lipchak, and Nicholas Haemel - Fourth Edition
- OpenGL Superbible, by Richard S. Wright, JR. and Michael Sweetl - Second Edition
- OpenGL - Programming for the X Window System (aka The Green Book), by Mark J. Kilgard
- OpenGL - Programming Guide (aka The Red Book), by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board Third Edition
- OpenGL Reference Manual (aka The Blue Book), by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board - Third Edition
Software Engineering, C++, Java
- Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Righard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
- The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson
- Strategies for Real-Time System Specification, by Derek J. Hatley and Imtiaz A. Pirbhai.
- Thinking in C++ Volume One: Introduction to Standard C++, by Bruce Eckel - Second Edition
- C++ How To Program, by Deitel & Deitel - Third Edition
- Java - How To Program, by Deitel & Deitel - Second Edition