These are the books I learned from. I have placed them roughly in the order that I recommend them.
Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual
Nigel Calder
Cruising Handbook
Nigel Calder
Marine Diesel Engines
Nigel Calder
Refrigeration for Pleasureboats
Nigel Calder
Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual
Don Casey
The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice
Brion Toss
The Voyager’s Handbook
Beth Leonard
How to Sail Around the World
Roth
World Cruising Routes
Jimmy Cornell
Marine Diesel Engines
Jean-Luc Pallas
Offshore Sailing; 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips
Bill Seifert
The Cruiser’s Handbook of Fishing
Scott Bannerot & Wendy Bannerot
Handbook of Offshore Cruising
Jim Howard
Spurr’s Guide to Upgrading Your Cruising Sailboat
Spurr
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
John Rousmaniere
The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat
John Vigor
Heavy Weather Sailing
K. Adlard Coles
The New Complete Sailing Manual
Steve Sleight
The Sailmaker’s Apprentice
Emiliano Marino
The Marlinspike Sailor
Hervey Garrett Smith
Celestial Navigation for Yacthsmen
Mary Blewitt
Practical Celestial Navigation
Susan Howell
Racing Trim
Bill Gladstone
How Boat Things Work
Charlie Wing
Weather for Sailors
Bill Biewenga
Creative Ropecraft
Stuart Grainger
Fastnet, Force 10
John Rousmaniere
Close to the Wind
Pete Goss
Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl
Ready for Sea
Tor Pinney
Cost Conscious Cruiser
Lin and Larry Pardey
Voyaging on a Small Income
Annie Hill
Used Boat Notebook
John Kretschmer
Getting Started in Sailboat Racing
Adam Cort & Richard Stearns
The Cruising Life
Jim Trefethen
Twenty Affordable Sailboat to Take You Anywhere
Gregg Nestor
The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual
The Craft of Sail; A Primer of Sailing
Jan Adkins