Recommended Perl Books

This is the list of books I would recommend. I've ordered the list from least advanced to most. I would only recommend Learning Perl if you have no real programming experience. Otherwise, everything you really need cover is in the first few chapters of Programming Perl.

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Perl Book List
Learning Perl, Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy, O'Reilly 2005 Learning Perl
Programming Perl, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, O'Reilly 2000 Programming Perl
Mastering Regular Expressions, Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, O'Reilly 2006 Mastering Regular Expressions
The Perl Cookbook, Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly 2003 The Perl Cookbook
Perl Hacks, chromatic with Damian Cnway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe, O'Reilly 2006 Perl Hacks
Object Oriented Perl, Damian Conway, Manning 1999 Object Oriented Perl
Perl Medic, Transforming Legacy Code, Peter J. Scott, Addison-Wesley 2004 Perl Medic
Perl Testing, A Developer's Notebook, Ian Langworth & chromatic, O'Reilly 2005 Perl Testing

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