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