I've been thinking about the Perl books that I have read and I wondered what the best Perl books of all time are. Naturally, it's not an easy question. I finally narrowed it down to a few categories: Best Perl Book for Beginners That has to go to Learning Perl, 4th edition, by Randal (one "l") Schwartz, Tom Phoenix and brian d foy. Though some may feel that there are other beginner books for Perl