Books and DVDs

There are a TON of training books and DVDs out there. Some are excellent, some middling, some abysmal. Here are some of the ones that I think are genuinely helpful and worth the money. They are listed alphabetically by author's last name.

Books
Training
 * Jean Donaldson, The Culture Clash
 * Jean Donaldson, Train Your Dog Like A Pro
 * Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson, My Smart Puppy
 * Jane Killion, When Pigs Fly!: Training Success with Impossible Dogs
 * Leslie McDevitt, Control Unleashed
 * Pat Miller, Do Over Dogs
 * Pat Miller, The Power of Positive Dog Training
 * Kim Saunders/Petfinder.com, The Adopted Dog Bible
 * Sophia Yin, How To Behave So Your Dog Behaves

Understanding Your Dog
 * Brenda Aloff, Canine Body Language
 * John Bradshaw, Dog Sense
 * Suzanne Clothier, Bones Would Rain From the Sky
 * Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs
 * Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog
 * Patricia McConnell, For the Love of a Dog
 * Patricia McConnell, The Other End of the Leash

Specific Issues
 * Ali Brown, Scaredy Dog (shyness/fear)
 * Jean Donaldson, Fight! (dog-dog aggression)
 * Jean Donaldson, Mine! (resource guarding)
 * Randy Grim, Don't Dump the Dog! (everything from barking to house soiling to funny rants about dumb reasons people dump their dogs)
 * Debbie Jacobs, A Guide to Living With and Training a Fearful Dog (shyness/fear)
 * Patricia McConnell, The Cautious Canine (shyness/fear)
 * Patricia McConnell, I'll Be Home Soon (separation anxiety)
 * Patricia McConnell, Feeling Outnumbered? (running multi-dog households)
 * Patricia McConnell, Feisty Fido (leash reactivity)
 * Debby McMullen, How Many Dogs?! (running multi-dog households)
 * Nicole Wilde, Help for Your Fearful Dog (shyness/fear)

Shelter and Rescue Work
 * Sheila Boneham, Rescue Matters
 * Elizabeth Hess, Lost and Found
 * Diane Leigh and Marilee Geyer, One at a Time
 * Melinda Roth, The Man Who Talks To Dogs
 * Sue Sternberg, Successful Dog Adoption (with some hesitations: I do not agree with all Sternberg's methods or philosophies, and feel that she is excessively alarmist with respect to temperament testing, in particular. But there is nonetheless a lot of good stuff to be mined here, so I've put it on the list)

DVDs

 * Susan Garrett, Crate Games
 * Sarah Kalmajs, The Language of Dogs
 * Leslie McDevitt, Control Unleashed (read the book first)
 * Leslie Nelson, Really Reliable Recall