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Title Author Scoop
Practical Java Haggar Equivalent of Effective C++ or Writing Solid Code from the C/C++ world. If you buy one book on Java, get this one. Get the syntax from the JavaDocs...
Core Java 2 Vol I Horstmann On everybody's list...
Core Java 2 Vol II Horstmann  
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages Hall Good intro into the presentation layer of the J2EE framework. Autographed copy!
Core J2EE Patterns Alur You can download this from Sun, but it's hard to read from a laptop in the bus or plane...
Java in a Nutshell Flanagan First book I read because I came from a C background. Good comparison. Is not afraid to point out some of things that are not there: const, preprocessor, assertions etc.