Best books for beginning pilots!?

[MidwestBob1389]

I'm trying to get back to my reading days of a book a week..(doubtful i will ever get back to that but we are trying!!!) And I have yet to fly in the cockpit, but I have dreamed of it for sometime. I was just curious as to what books helped you train the best? What was the most informative and what was mostly used as a paper weight?
Thank you kindly!

 

[Dana]

Sick and Rudder. The language is archaic but aerodynamics is the same.

 

[bflynn]

Stick and Rudder is a good book, but not necessarily the best book for beginner pilots who want to control the airplane, but may not need to learn aerodynamics yet.

The books you *need* to read right now
The course books for your pilot ground school
FAR/AIM, Far parts 61 and 91 (probably part of your pilot ground school).
The POH for the airplane you're flying
The Airplane Flying handbook https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation

Unfortunately, all of these are sloggy books. They're dense and written with an assumption of a little knowledge, but what they teach is important to being a good pilot.