Good list, id say maybe some more on joomla though…. Joomla is very slept on.

Wow ! Super exhaustive list . Thanks!

Thanks for listing these books. Definitely useful for web nerds like me.

great reference …. thanks brother

Perfect timing…Need some books for work.

Whoa list.

Cool list, on the topic of books any one know an up to date, recent SEO book thats any good?

By the time you read all these, they’ll all be well outdated.

Woa…I don’t have any of these except for the MySQL one….I need to catchup. Great list!!

BAM! Nice list.

Nice list. Gotta check some of these out. I’m reading Agile Rails Development right now. It’s not too bad.

Bookmarked. Thanks!

Don’t mean to be rude here, just thinking out loud – But why are these tuts sites acting like smashing magazine (huge lists, free stuff)? I honestly think nettuts is in top form when pushing great content, which it does, but these type of articles are just kinda boring in my opinion.

nice list! very helpful. im thinking of getting one of them.

Great collection…Thanks

Oh this is great thanks I have my eyes on a few their that I’d be ordering asap (design, css, jquery, wordpress).

I have to say I am very happy to see Larry Ullman’s PHP For the World Wide Web on the list. Over the past month or so I have started teaching myself PHP and this book has been extremely helpful for me as a beginner. His style of writing makes it easy to follow and understand.

Great list of books, definitely saw a few I am interested in checking out.

It’s Code Igniter not CodeIgnitor.

What – no ASP.NET stuff?

I must say that the first book, “CSS : The missing manual”, is a favourite of mine, and I’m surprised by the “Professional Code Igniter” book – didn’t know that was around, so thanks for pointing that one out.

Also, “Wordpress Theme Design” is new to me too.

Thanks for the list.

Nice reference here. Bookmarked and tweeted!

Now, it would be nice to add some books on SEO to this list like SEO Bible! SEO is another very important aspect of web development and every web dev worth her or his salt will know how to optimize a site for SEO.

Still another milestone of GOOD READS!!! THANKS for the list!!!

Great list, but it lacks THE Ruby reference, the pickaxe book :
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby

Very nice list. I already bought 6 of them.

adding to amazon wishlist.

Great Post

Thanks you very much. Great list !

Whoa! A lot of books, I think it would take me at least a year to properly get through all of these, and that’s if I was spending 100% of my time on reading. But, hey, since they’re all “must-read” I better get started.

Ok, ok, I know some people prefer learning from books but for me, I find learning by bulk doesn’t really work. I prefer building something and then when I reach to a hurdle (or a wall) I simply google my problems away. Some of you might say that readings books is good because you’ll learn the language/technology from the bottom up, but as we all know there are lots of other ways to learn, some of them might be more effective than the book-reading bottom-up approach…

One thing:

Simply Javascript is a book by SitePoint, and it gives plenty of examples and real-world tutorials on how to use javascript to solve problems that plague modern web layouts.

JavaScript is not meant to be used to solve web layout issues, it’s sole purpose is to enhance the user’s experience. The only time it’s okay for your website to be dependent on JavaScript is if you’re developing a super-interactive app like an Ajax messaging client or something like Google Mail (but even that has a non JS version).

Oh, and, thanks for the list Glen, I think you’re becoming the master of Nettuts lists…

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nice list.. by the time I get through all these all I have to start again with the latest tech

Where are Designing With Web Standards, Information Architecture, Designing Web Usability, Building Accessible Websites ? There aren’t? Big mistake!

It’s not fair. How come you have books on PHP, Ruby and Python but not a single one on ASP.net?

Great list! I’m going to put some of these on my holiday wish list. I’d love to see “50 Must-read Books on Web Design” over at PSDTuts! Some for guidance, some for inspiration?

too much of them.. where do u guys find time to read all these?

or maybe thats just me!
i prefer reading tuts on blogs like nettuts… quicker, smarter and uptodate!

I recommand Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: in C# and VB.

The High Performance MySQL book is brilliant – solved so many configuration issues with it! Very highly recommended.

This is most wonderful article and more and more book.

Nice list, just put some on my Amazon wishlist…Thanks!

Some good books, but i think something is missing in frameworks part:

“The Definitive Guide to symfony”

http://www.symfony-project.org/book/1_1/

I think this list is great, net tut’s provides some really great articles and it’s nice have something tangible like a book infront of you aswell so thanks for putting the list together I’m defiantly going to pick up some of these books.

Codeignitor?

Hell yea to the NIN desktop picture in the screen shot!

Where is Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR?

Good list, but what about books on proper coding in general? A couple of good books that are easy for most to get into are Head First Design Patterns and Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (both from O’Reilly).

These books work at teaching common principles in easy to learn ways. Great for any beginner/intermediate developer, and most advanced developers can probably glean something useful from them as well.

Lovely!

I would add to the CSS section “Head First HTML With CSS & XHTML” by Elizabeth and Eric Freeman which I think remains the best book for complete beginners. Also, “Beginning CSS Web Development From novice to Professional” by Simon Collison.

For the more intermediate to advanced: Andy Clarke’s “CSS Artistry” (book+DVD) combo, and “W3C Creativity” which includes awesome techniques from some of the top designers. These two pushed my knowledge and skill way beyond.

Apress.com offers a daily $10 ebook download, so it’s worth going there daily to see what the current offering is.

Great list, but Zeldman doesn’t make the cut? I’d also toss Getting Real and Defensive Design for the Web up there. But maybe those are just gimmies…..

I can back this post 100%, i have most of these books and they are all great! Anyone in doubt pick some of these titles up and you will find yourself a happy person.

This is a pretty good list, but I must disagree with #12. Even though the creator of the first edition of PHP, Rasmus Lerdof, helped write this book, it is not very good. It goes in a bad order for someone who is just learning the language, and there are many inexcusable errors in the code examples, as well as unexplained usages of language idioms and built in functions. These are still present even in the updated 2006 version.

The only reason I was able to learn something from this book is because I already knew enough about PHP to recognize what was wrong.

totally stoked. I got #2 & #14 like 2 months ago. I must say, CSS mastery is super helpful for those of us who didn’t go to school for thi, it explains everything you need to know to start making bangin’ websites.

thanks for the list, the iPhone one is a goldmine….

Good list, but I noticed no Perl books or has Python become the new Perl.

I have a couple of older versions of some of the books, but I think that I need to update them soonish.

Interesting list, though I think the list may be a bit excessive unless you’re just publishing a list of popular web development books from amazon.

Saying these are 50 must read books is a little dramatic. I don’t see a single .net development book in the list, which from what I’ve seen is where the money is.

I’d also add “TextPattern Solutions” for all the TXP users out there

A great collection! I have about 16 or so of these books already, and would strongly recommend them.

Good list, but have you read all of them? I’m wondering how you could recommend some of these if you had. A few of them are really old with a lot of deprecated content, particularly #47. Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress. It was good in it’s time. This was written for Drupal 4.7. Drupal’s at 7 now. WordPress has changed a lot too.

For Rails, I’d recommend RailsSpace by Hartl and Prochazka. I’ve read both it and the Agile Rails and prefer the former. YMMV.

You’re missing Web ReDesign 2.0. Not a book on an specific programming language, but a must read book for anyone involved in the web design / development business.

You forgot HTML

I read “Head First: HTML with CSS & XHTML” to learn both HTML and CSS. I highly recommend this for beginners to web design/development!

PHP and MYSQL Web Development’s 4th Edition is out. I have it. ^_^

“…many different web development topics”

should read

“…many different web development topics (excluding anything Microsoft)…”

Great list, I would also recommend “Simply Rails 2″ for the Framework books, its a pretty good guide.

Don’t even get me started on “Getting Real” by 37signals. Its my bible.

Great list but not a single ASP.net book or any Visual Studio Book name.
i think its not fair. but still its upto people.

Thanks

I don’t think I can read 50 books

Really good list guys, i like the css ones da best.
We really need more wordpress ones though

For ASP.NET, I’d highly recommend “Professional ASP.NET 3.5″ from Wrox.

i own many of them. really nice books

Great list, but I’ve already read em all! Got anything else?

What about Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp?

Or Web Standards Creativity?

@Jeffrey – agree about Pro ASP.NET 3.5 – definitely worth reading if you’re interested in learning ASP.NET.

Ha, 50 books and no Asp.Net, no bias there…

This list should be re-title ‘50 must read books for people who don’t like Microsoft’

Hi, you have listed all the basic books available for web development But gathering all books at a single place is a good idea.

Why there’s nothing about asp.net??
Think it’s very popular as well as PHP, Rails, Python….

“Where are Designing With Web Standards, Information Architecture, Designing Web Usability, Building Accessible Websites ? There aren’t? Big mistake!”

Can’t agree with all these because I just know the first, but you are right! Designing with web standards is missing!!! One of the best and most important books for web development.

This is a really good list covering a good breath of web design topics. However there is a good deal of duplication in some areas and where is designing with web standards?

Great list indeed!

Thanks.

I miss miss “Webstandards Creativity”, “Designing with Web Standards” and most of all “The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web”.

Like a couple of others pointed out, asp.net books are needed.

True most beginning web developers start on php because it is free and accessible, a lot of college students who studied computer programming make the jump to web and often struggle. I myself started off in php but was forced to make a jump to asp.net due to the fact that most corporate web development jobs are done on Microsoft servers using .Net.

I would recommend like someone else suggested Beginning ASP.Net 3.5 in C#(also VB) 2008. It has been a good book for me to make the transition, and I have heard of other programmers using it to transition from desktop to web applications.

I have to agree with those who have commented about Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards is missing. It really should have been included.

IMHO Ajax on Rails is a JOKE, merely a tutorial.
Missing The Ruby Way, and The Rail’s Way the best advanced,complete,informative rails book ever

thanks! a lot of books… a lot of time

Great list here, thanks for the work.

btw, what is doing linux books in this list ?

Holy chow, what a great list, i never have that before, thank you so much

How could you forget the book by Scratch Media, Save the pixel. It tought me alot about design.

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/save-the-pixel-book.cfm

Good list. Try JQUERY its great!

Awesome!

good references.. thanks

Obviously a man of great taste. A Mac and NIN on the desktop – actually, looks strangely familiar…

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I’ve read some of them, and they are good, tough I’d recommend more javascript books instead of the jquery book. I like javascript more than its frameworks. But it’s good you listed for the people who likes frameworks.

BTW, I’d recommend Pro javascript techniques by John Resig

good list

My only issue is where I will get enough money to buy all these books now >.<

I sit next to a .NET developer at work and I agree, it’s where you’d want to expand your horizons if you want to go beyond open-source languages/frameworks.

JavaScript is one of my weaker points- I’d check out those books from the list first.

Most of the list is good! Buying one book at a time works.

Cool list, maybe more jQuery related books.

What about accessibility???

Nice list. Just added a few of those to my “must reads”.

YO!!! WHAT??? I’ve got to read 50 books????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50 is kind of gratuitous. I’d agree with maybe a fifth of these, but then only if you’re working with the given language (for example, covering PHP, Python and Ruby altogether is wasteful for most engineers).

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Nice List

Thanks a lot for the review I already knew some of them.

If you have to read 50 books on web development you should really consider a job change.

And here is my continually updated list of web development related books:

http://www.riaguy.com/books/

Great list for web master.
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thanks

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Great list, I’d like to add:

JavaScript
———————————
Pro JavaScript Design Patterns (Ross Harmes/Dustin Diaz)
jQuery in Action (Bear Bibeault)

DOM
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Dom Scripting (Jeremy Keith)

PHP
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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL (Hugh E. Williams & David Lane)

I wonder how good will I be if I have those books in my books shelf