Any good book recommendations?

Out of the few AP/astronomy books I have, this is my favorite astrophotography book, which is a sky atlas.
https://www.amazon.com/Astrophotography-Sky-Atlas-Charles-Bracken/dp/1517687802/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1FLJOJS0JQVLS&keywords=astrophotography+planner&qid=1704672225&sprefix=astrophotography+planner%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-5

I'm sure there are better ones though, like Uranometria 2000.

And this is my favorite astronomy book, which I have learned a lot from:
https://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Astronomers-Guide-Terence-Dickinson/dp/0228103274/ref=sr_1_1?crid=J5Y71V1IQN1E&keywords=backyard+astronomers+guide&qid=1704674758&sprefix=backyard+astr%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1

Michael Nemetz:
„The Astrophotography Manual“ by Chris Woodhouse

I agree with Michael. This is a great book.

Bracken’s Astrophotography Sky Atlas is very handy and light with an excellent cross-referenced multi-catalog section after the maps that is extremely useful.

Bracken’s Primer second edition is very good too.

On the Astrophysics side of things:

The End of Everything, Astrophysically Speaking by Katie Mack is a fun, mind-bending read.
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time by Emma Chapman - just started this, and enjoying it!
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque is less astrophysics and more history & anecdotes from observational astronomers, but also a good read.

I am excited about Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott but it's not out yet, and I haven't read it, but he's fun to listen to. Capturing the Universe: The Most Spectacular Astrophotography from Across the Cosmos by Rhodri Evans and Steven Young is an excellent coffee table book of astrophotography and contains wonderful images, but might be out of print.

CS!

Not a practical book for backyard astronomy, but more of an interest read would be "The Last Stargazers" by Emily Levesque. It is anecdotal and looks at various stories about professional observing throughout the years. I found it a highly enjoyable and learned a lot of interesting things about the world of professional astronomy. 

I also have been enjoying "100 Stars the Explain the Universe" by Florian Friestetter. Each chapter is 2-3 pages and looks at a different star that is a springboard for examining a topic in astronomy.

Richard Baum's The Haunted Observatory
Dennis Overbye's Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas

There are a lot of great suggestions here. Will definitely start with the new "Astrophotography Manual"  when the new edition becomes available, as well as Braken's Sky Atlas. Also can't resist "The Complete Guide to Herschel Objects" for exactly the reason Jean-Pierre described… After I wrap up "Cosmic Queries" it'll be on to the "The Last Stargazers" or "100 Stars that Explain the Universe" - both sound fascinating. Big thanks to all who chimed in.

Turn Left at Orion is a must IMO, and if you really want a DEEP look at what you are taking images of, I suggest the series Annals of the Deep Sky by Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb.  These are very deep reads  but are written well and will pretty much tell you anything you want to know about the major features of each constellation.  Wonderfully done series.

- Sky Catalogue 2000.0, volume 2: Double Stars, Variable Stars and Nonstellar Objects (edited by Alan Hirshfeld and Roger W. Sinnott, Sky Publishing Corporation & Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Although it's from 1985, this is still a very interesting book for those who want to explore a veritable cornucopia of all sorts of astronomical objects beyond the solar system, and also their coordinates (Epoch 2000.0). This book also has a GLOSSARY OF SELECTED ASTRONOMICAL NAMES (which is, I think, the source of the handy booklet Deep-Sky Name Index 2000.0 by Hugh C. Maddocks, Foxon-Maddocks Associates, 1991).

- The Clementine Atlas of the Moon, Revised and Updated Edition (Ben Bussey and Paul Spudis), Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Believe it or not, the name of none other than myself is mentioned on page xi (11) of that lunar atlas because I detected a huge number of typographical errors in the first edition of 2004!
An uneducated harbour labourer in the city of Ghent-Belgium (me, a blue collar worker) seems to have been the only person in the world who went through all 144 printed LAC charts of the moon to investigate each and every one of the named lunar surface formations, and detected hundreds (!) of typographical errors!

- Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars (Rev. T. W. Webb). Without this book, there would be no Burnham's Celestial Handbook. Although Burnham's three-volume classic is a 'must have', T. W. Webb's C.O.f.C.T. (Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes) (The Stars) is such a pleasure to browse through and... to try to locate Webb's (numerous) double stars and variable stars in Wil Tirion's Uranometria 2000.0 star atlas! (which I did).

By the way, a couple of years ago I detected a book called STUDIES IN STARLIGHT, Understanding Our Universe by a certain Charles J. Caes (TAB BOOKS Inc, 1988). Charles J. Caes is not related to me (Danny Caes), but... anyway, I wonder what country might have been the source of the name Caes.

And also... that booklet called:
- CONSTELLATIONS - A Concise Guide in Color, by Josef Klepesta and Antonin Rukl (Artia / Hamlyn, 1969) (many times reprinted!).
Contains eighty eight blue colored charts of all the constellations with... Eugene Delporte's curious looking (stairway shaped) boundaries! This booklet, together with Wil Tirion's SKY-ATLAS 2000.0 and the monthly magazine ASTRONOMY, were my first sources of my search for names and nicknames of astronomical objects beyond the solar system. Especially the last pages of the magazine ASTRONOMY (each month a detailed description of one of the constellations) (by the way, my most remembered one of the many mentioned facts: the existence of the deep orange-red colored variable star S Cephei / SAO 10100, with an excerpt from Burnham's Celestial Handbook:  S Cephei is one of the deepest colored stars visible to observers with small and moderate sized telescopes. Its intense shade of red makes it a vivid object in the field of any good instrument. And indeed, in my Orion SkyQuest Dobsonian it looks like the orange-reddish "end" of a distant cigarette at night, or the typical color of those nervous looking (dancing) electric candles (neon bulbs in the shape of candle flames).
From ASTRONOMY April 1985:
- S Cephei is probably the reddest star viewable through a backyard telescope. The colors of these stars (Mu Cephei / S Cephei) can be compared to cranberry juice: if we assume S's intensity is a pure juice solution, Mu's would equal a partially watered-down mixture, while Betelgeuze's and Antares' would be mostly water with just a touch of juice.
This was the spark which ignited my search for Cool Carbon Stars (CCS), such as R Leporis (Hind's Crimson Star), T Lyrae, V Aquilae, RT Capricorni, etc... etc... (really, there are MANY of those CCS's !!!).

I strongly recommend the "Deep-Sky Companions" serie of books by Stephen James O'Meara.
For me, they are the "Bible" for serious amateur astronomers. Perfect scientific and historical documentation, poetic views, beautiful literary style, accurate descriptions to find the objects in the sky - you cannot expect better !
I use these books to comment my astro images (and dream about what I see !), for instance The Messier Objects, The Secret Deep, Hidden Treasures (600 pages!), Southern Gems, The Caldwell Objects.

Philippe, from Switzerland

Katelyn Beecroft:
Not a practical book for backyard astronomy, but more of an interest read would be "The Last Stargazers" by Emily Levesque. It is anecdotal and looks at various stories about professional observing throughout the years. I found it a highly enjoyable and learned a lot of interesting things about the world of professional astronomy. 

I also have been enjoying "100 Stars the Explain the Universe" by Florian Friestetter. Each chapter is 2-3 pages and looks at a different star that is a springboard for examining a topic in astronomy.

God, I actually gave up 60% of the way through The Last Stargazers. As interesting as it could've potentially been, she is unfortunately an awful storyteller and each page held my attention about as much as watching paint dry. I wanted to love it, but Levesque just isn't a gifted author. 

Starborn by Roberto Trotta on the other hand, is proving genuinely enjoyable - despite the rather cringey parallel fiction story about a permanently overcast world [one that I also seem to inhabit most of the time] that he weaves between the cosmo-palaeontology.