There is a common saying “It’s Better Late Than Never”. If you have not got a chance to learn pure JavaScript yet and jumped directly into jQuery or other frameworks, you might want to gain some basic knowledge on JavaScript in order to improve your advanced coding capabilities. For me, books are always much better than some blogs or online course. But that’s my personal opinion. This post has listed down 15 best books on JavaScript that every beginner should read: JavaScript Programmer’s Reference Beginning JavaScript And CSS Development with jQuery Learn JavaScript Eloquent Javascript Javascript For Cats Thinking in Javascript Javascript in Ten Minutes You Don’t Know JS (series) JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook JavaScript: The Definitive Guide JavaScript Goodies Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript Beginning JavaScript JavaScript Step by Step Human JavaScript Knowledge is endless and in order to learn more, one needs to dive deeper in the sea of books. The above-mentioned JavaScript books will help programmers of any level get a clear understanding of how scripting works. Some of them are free for download and the others can be purchased at a decent price online. Have fun reading.