On the lines of books:
If you're new to programming Elements of Programming with Perl might be what you are looking for. If you're comfortable with coding and just want to learn perl then then you will find that both Learning Perl and Programming Perl (aka 'The camel') absolutely essential if your the 'learn from books' type.

Once equipped with those the Book Review page is where you want to go.

I was surprise that no one else referred you to perlmonks very own tutorial node, as an on-line resource.

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