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Bulletproof Web Design is the only CSS book I have liked enough to buy so far. Hopefully, our peers have other suggestions. I would like to learn more.
Not a book, but I would highly recommend a web dev. plugin for Firefox such as Firebug that lets you view CSS attributes on every element in a page, as well as edit the CSS and see live changes.
CSS is such an evolving art - browser inconsistencies and their related hacks are constantly changing, and best practises are continually being developed.
It seems ironic to me that you would revert to using dead-tree media for instruction on how to style the cutting edge. If you simply need an introduction to css then w3schools can't be beat.
Oh, and I also own zen of css design, which is pretty good if you must have a physical book.
CSS Mastery for me is THE book on CSS. Although its old because at the time the book was written, IE7 was not officially in the market yet. It contains a lot of step-by-step solutions for common real-world css problems, along with browser gotchas and hacks when necessary. Particularly useful if you plan to support IE6 for pixel-perfect layouts.
Eric myer on CSS
It hasn't converted me into a CSS fanatic, but it has helped me learn the tech and write better CSS when needed.
The Zen of CSS Design for me. It takes submissions to the CSS Zen garden and uses them as examples of what techniques you can use for layout, typography, images, etc It suits my learning style of visual diagrams and reverse-engineering things to see how they work. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321303474?ie=UTF8&ta...
Beautiful book.
Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS (Just released)
Trascending CSS (Released)
Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library: Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library (Released, for yui and some javascript)
I want them but don't have money.
Have a look at OOCSS: http://wiki.github.com/stubbornella/oocss
And CSS Discuss: http://css-discuss.incutio.com