The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

评语：Classics / Older If you want to know how virtual member functions are commonly implemented and how base objects are commonly laid out in memory in a multi-inheritance scenario, and how all this affects performance, this is where you will find thorough d

评语：Classics / Older Lakos explains techniques to manage very big C++ software projects. Certainly a good read, if it only was up to date. It was written long before C++98, and misses on many features (e.g. namespaces) important for large scale projects. If

评语：Classics / Older A predecessor of the pattern movement, it describes many C++-specific "idioms". It's certainly a very good book and still worth a read if you can spare the time, but quite old and not up-to-date with current C++.

评语：Classics / Older

评语：Classics / Older If you want to know why the language is the way it is, this book is were you find answers. This covers everything before the standardization of C++.

评语：Above Intermediate

评语：Above Intermediate A groundbreaking book on advanced generic programming techniques. Introduces policy-based design, type lists, and fundamental generic programming idioms then explains how many useful design patterns (including small object allocators,

评语：Intermediate This is the book about C++ templates. It covers everything from the very basics to some of the most advanced template metaprogramming and explains every detail of how templates work (both conceptually and at how they are implemented) and dis

评语：Intermediate "Coding standards" here doesn't mean "how many spaces should I indent my code?" This book contains 101 best practices, idioms, and common pitfalls that can help you to write correct, understandable, and efficient C++ code.

评语：Intermediate Discusses generic programming, optimization, and resource management; this book also has an excellent exposition of how to write modular code in C++ by using nonmember functions and the single responsibility principle.

评语：Intermediate Covers additional exception safety topics not covered in Exceptional C++, in addition to discussion of effective object oriented programming in C++ and correct use of the STL.

评语：Intermediate Presented as a set of puzzles, this has one of the best and thorough discussions of the proper resource management and exception safety in C++ through Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII) in addition to in-depth coverage of a variet

评语：Intermediate Even more rules of thumb than Effective C++. Not as important as the ones in the first book, but still good to know.

评语：Beginner-Best practices This aims to do the same to the part of the standard library coming from the STL what Effective C++ did to the language as a whole: It presents rules of thumb along with their rationale.

评语：Beginner-Best practices This was written with the aim of being the best second book C++ programmers should read, and it succeeded. Earlier editions were aimed at programmers coming from C, the third edition changes this and targets programmers coming fro

评语：Beginner-Introductory

评语：Beginner-Introductory Two volumes; second is more about standard library, but still very good

评语：Beginner-Introductory This basically covers the same ground as the C++ Primer, but does so on a fourth of its space. So it comes with quite a steep learning curve, but, for those who can cope with this, it is a very compact introduction into the language

评语：Beginner-Introductory Coming at 1k pages, this is a very thorough introduction into C++ that covers just about everything in the language in a very accessible format and in great detail.

评语：Reference Style - All Levels The classic introduction to C++ by its creator. Written to parallel the classic K&R, this indeed reads very much alike it and covers just about everything from the core language to the standard library, to programming parad

评语：Reference Style - All Levels The introduction and reference for the C++ Standard Library.

评语：Reference Style - All Levels There's very little to say about this book except that, if you want to know anything about streams and locales, then this is the one place to find definitive answers.