My three favourite Perl books:

1. Camel (Programming Perl)
2. Shiny Ball (Effective Perl Programming)
3. Staghound (Perl Best Practices)

See also:

• perl.org free online Perl books
• Book Reviews (Perl Monks Book Reviews section)

For a long list of links for getting started with Perl see:

• Re: Online Tutorial To Get Started (Learning Perl Links)

Extra Book References Added Later

Some Perl book lists:

• learn.perl.org - basic book list (see especially Learning Perl by merlyn)
• perl.org - longer book list (all books mostly free)
• 50 Best Perl Books of All Time - bookauthority.org (suspect commercial Perl book list)

Some Perl book and other recommendations:

• Modern Perl - by chromatic, fantastic free intro to Perl for decent programmers who are not familiar with perl (not sure current status of modernperlbooks.com)
• perlmaven (by szabgab - lots of good free stuff here)
• Perl Taster (Kindle) (by davorg - not free but very cheap)

• Effective Perl Programming by brian d foy et al
• Minimal Perl by Tim Maher

PM Nodes Discussing Books

• Modern Perl: The Book: The Draft by chromatic (2010)

• thread where chromatic and xdg compare Perl books
• Best Perl Books of All Time
• If I could only own one Perl book, it would be:
• Which Book
• Book question
• So what is your Perl book "Trilogy" anyway?

• Books to master Perl, LAMP and web development
• Network Programming with Perl Book Recommendation
• What book would be valuable to someone self-taught?
• New Beginning Perl book due out in August
• Perl Videos and Book (followed by re-asking in Perl Book OOPS)
• Suggestions for getting a more solid understanding of Perl
• Please guide me regarding good books/resources on data structures and algorithms
• Seeking guidance on getting better at Perl.
• Perl Recommended Reads
• Need a Book for System Administration with Modern Perl Concepts
• Are these Perl Textbooks Good?
• Moving from scripting to programming

• Perl books
• good perl book
• Perl books I'd like to have.
• Unwritten Perl Books: 2007 version
• Recommended Reading

• Re^5: Why so much hate? by xdg (a technical reviewer for Intermediate Perl)
• Good Perl book?
• Should I go back to basics of keep moving on?
• Which is best book to start learning Object Oriented Perl?

• Any other good perl books (2019)
• Re: Old Programmer New To Perl (2020)
• Re^2: Old Programmer New To Perl (2020)
• Beginning Perl (Ovid) Vs Learning Perl? (2020)
• latest perl book. (follow up by anonymous author of previous Beginning Perl v Learning Perl question?)
• Re^6: Unicode issues with emc uemcli and Re: RFC: Perl Learning Plan (pritesh_ugrankar praises Beginning Perl by Ovid)

• Perl tutorial building on Python skills? (lots of useful tangential discussion of Perl books in this 2021 thread)
• Beginner Recommendations by Ookma-Kyi (2023)

• Is Programming Perl still relevant as a reference book? by vrk (2007)
• (Perl) Programming Books like the Camel Book by amarquis (2007)
• Who still uses the camel book? by starX (2023)

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