 | Using Drupal by Angela Byron
Buy new: $39.23 / Used from: $30.25 I'm biased about this one: I'm one of the co-authors, after all! If you're looking for a guide to the "middle ground" between simple Drupal intros and hardcore development, though, I think "Using Drupal" is a great resource.
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 | Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition (Beginning) by John K. VanDyk
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $26.13 A tremendously solid reference by on of Drupal's core developers. It guides devs through every one of Drupal's major APIs as well as the thornier infrastructure components like the bootstrapping system and the caching mechanisms. The chapters on development best practices are not to be missed.
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 | Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $21.94 A pragmatic, common-sense guide to keeping your web site's users happy with clean, straightforward UI. He avoids the heavy-handed prescriptive style of Jakob Nielsen and gives developers a chummy guide to the principles of effective web UI.
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 | The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr.
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.01 Are you writing a novel? Avoid this book like the plague. Are you writing online help, tutorial text, or any user-facing verbiage for your software? Run, don't walk, to buy this little baby. It's all about communicating clearly without the fluff.
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 | PHP in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by Paul Hudson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $8.38 Is your Drupal learning curve made steeper by the fact that you're learning PHP along the way? Pick up a solid PHP book while you're at it, but remember that the techniques in a general purpose guide will also bypass most of Drupal's APIs and security features.
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 | Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $22.00 If you're a hacker who hasn't had much formal comp sci training (or a student who wants to learn the 'real-world' lessons from a bookrather than a 3am server emergency), you can't beat Code Complete. Great stuff on planning, engineering, building, testing, and polishing large-scale software.
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