Books on data visualization

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke: a very good and practical introduction to data visualization.
• Data Visualization A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy: a nice introduction + practical examples in R.
• Edward R‘s books are classics.
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  • Envisioning Information
  • Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
  • Beautiful Evidence
• Colin Ware‘s books are great to study visual perception that is involved in data visualization.
  • Information Visualization, Second Edition: Perception for Design
  • Visual Thinking: for Design
• Visualization Analysis and Design by Tamara Munzner
• Scientific Visualization Python plus Matplotlib is a good technical book that delves into scientific visualization with Matplotlib.

Others

• Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin
  • Jaques Bertin: Matrix Theory of Graphics. Information Design Journal 2001
• [Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations] by Isabel Meirelles
• Katy Börner
  • Visual Insights: A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data
  • Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know
  • Atlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map
  • Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures
• Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think by Stuart K. Card (Editor), Jock Mackinlay (Editor), Ben Shneiderman (Editor)
• Graphical Perception: The Visual Decoding of Quantitative Infromation on Graphical Displays of Data by William S. Cleveland and Robert McGill
• Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment by Ben Fry - practical. contains many source codes.
• Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon by Chaomei Chen
• Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts by Julie Steele and Noah Ilinsky
• Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information by Manuel Lima
• Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
• Stephen Few
  • Now you see it
  • Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
  • Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
• The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
• James Elkins: How to use your eyes
• Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen
• Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers by Felice Frankel and Angela DePace