This category of books includes reference works for all of us archaeo-nuts, including encyclopedias and overviews, biographies and histories of archaeology, and travel references.

Biographies and History of the Discipline
I love a good biography, and fortunately there have been several good biographies of archaeologists in the last few years. Also in this class of book are lumped histories of archaeology.

• Digging through Darkness
• Finding the Walls of Troy
• Grahame Clarke: An Intellectual Biography
• The Land of Prehistory
• Conversations with Lew Binford
• Bandelier: The Life and Adventures of Adolph Bandelier

Encyclopedias and Overviews
This category is made up of my professional secret stash of encyclopedias and overviews. While supplemented by frequent trips to the library, this group is still the backbone of the Archaeology website at About.com, and is guaranteed to help anyone get familiar with a broad bariety of topics.

• The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America
• Medieval Archaeology
• The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia
• Prehistoric Europe: An Illustrated History
• Prehistory of Australia
• Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
• Aspects of African Archaeology

Travel Guides
I don't know of very many of these guides, but I certainly appreciate the fact that they exist! Look for more to appear here in the future.

• Southern France
• Greece