Not to be a nay-sayer, but are you coming from the future? 'Cause Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference is currently only in the second edition, not fourth (O'Reilly listing); it is an excellent work, however, and I, too, highly recommend it for anyone doing serious web development.

The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my alltime favorites. Another one I'd recommend is Flatland by Edwin Abbot; this wonderful book taught me to never accept my own perspective as the penultimate.