Drupal Books

Book: 

Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket

Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket

This is a complete review of security in Drupal. Starting with an overview of security issues in general, how to protect against them as a site admin, and then diving into several chapters covering the proper use of the Drupal APIs to eliminate these problems. The final step in this education is to walk through exploits of several known problems and discusses how to use them to take over a site. The last chapter is a guide to online resources on about Drupal and about security in general.

Book: 

Using Drupal

According to their website Using Drupal will be available in December of 2008 and is available for pre-order from Amazon.com.

Enjoy!

Book: 

Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

This upcoming book provides an introduction to Drupal, but also shows how to make the most of Drupal (leverage it) as Drupal goes from 5.x to 6.x to 7.x. The fast upgrade cycle is one of the things which can often be a problem for Drupal users. Victor's advice on handling that upgrade cycle will provide valuable insight into managing change in the fast-paced world of Drupal.

Matthew Saunders has reviewed Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6.

David Mercer has an easy conversational style of writing that makes reading his book a pleasure. He makes Drupal non-threatening and takes the reader from the most basic concepts through some of Drupal's more esoteric features. The book is broken into ten chapters plus an appendix on deployment.

In his review John Forsythe writes:

This book will take you through building several different modules, linking them together through hooks, and finally, creating an install profile to incorporate them all into a distributable package. Along the way, you'll find lots of useful tips, and links to relevant topics on Drupal.org.