Java Oriented Favorite Book List

Effective Java

http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-Edition-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718341&sr=8-1&keywords=effective+java

“I sure wish I had this book ten years ago. Some might think that I don’t need any Java books, but I need this one.”

—James Gosling, fellow and vice president, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Java Concurrency in Practice

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/dp/0321349601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718424&sr=8-1&keywords=java+concurrency+in+practice

Java Puzzlers

http://www.amazon.com/Java%C2%BF-Puzzlers-Traps-Pitfalls-Corner/dp/032133678X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718589&sr=8-1&keywords=java+puzzlers

Real World Java EE Patterns

http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Java-Patterns-Rethinking-Practices/dp/1300149310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718680&sr=8-1&keywords=adam+bien

Working Effectively With Legacy Code

http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718740&sr=8-1&keywords=legacy+code

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397718779&sr=8-1&keywords=refactoring

Java Performance

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Performance-Charlie-Hunt/dp/0137142528/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401768516&sr=8-2&keywords=java+performance

Well Grounded Java Developer

http://www.amazon.com/Well-Grounded-Java-Developer-techniques-programming/dp/1617290068/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401768546&sr=1-1&keywords=well+grounded+java+developer

Core Java and All

http://horstmann.com/

If you are thinking how can I learn Java the following is best one:

Too many friends of mine  who are C/C++ developers started to learn the Java PL with this book ;)

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596009205.do

what is yours?