Perl Books

There are lots of different books that cover many ways to use Perl.

  • Learning Perl, 8th Edition, by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix (O’Reilly, 2021), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Mastering Perl, 2nd Edition, by brian d foy (O’Reilly, 2014), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition, by brian d foy (O’Reilly, 2012), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Programming Perl, 4th Edition, by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, and Jon Orwant (O’Reilly, 2012), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition, by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway (O’Reilly, 2005), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Perl Hacks by chromatic with Damian Conway and Curtis "Ovid" Poe (O’Reilly, 2006), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Perl One-Liners by Peteris Krumins (O’Reilly, 2014), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Computer Science & Perl Programming by Jon Orwant (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Advanced Perl Programming by Sriram Srinivasan (O’Reilly, 1997), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition, by Simon Cozens (O’Reilly, 2005), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Mastering Algorithms with Perl by Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jon Orwant, and John Macdonald (O’Reilly, 1999), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by James Tisdall (O’Reilly, 2001), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, and Stephen Spainhour (O’Reilly, 2002), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Mastering Perl/Tk by Stephen Lidie and Nancy Walsh (O’Reilly, 2002), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk Programming by Jon Orwant (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics by James Tisdall (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Games, Diversions & Perl Culture by Jon Orwant (O’Reilly, 2003), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition, by Joseph N. Hall, Joshua A. McAdams, and brian d foy (Addison Wesley, 2010), available at Amazon

  • Minimal Perl by Tim Maher (Manning, 2007), available at Manning or Amazon

  • Wicked Cool Perl Scripts by Steve Oualline (No Starch Press, 2006), available at O’Reilly or Amazon

  • CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition, by Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, and Gunther Birznieks (O’Reilly, 2000), available at O’Reilly or Amazon