Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals by Brian Enos: The original bible of practical shooting, the book everyone owns and nobody reads. It’s a dense read that is hard to wrap your head around if you don’t have a strong foundation in the sport, but it says right on the label it’s not fundamentals. The zen descriptions are a little hard to follow, but if you plow through it, you may find that this book, almost three decades old, still has some things to teach you about the small moments and small feelings when shooting.
Principles of Performance
Principles of Performance by Steve Anderson: Steve has three books as well, and they are all worth having, but I think his second book doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It’s a bit of a jaded book full of hard lessons learned on the range. The section on common mistakes you see at matches has proven amazingly timeless.
Skills & Drills
Skills & Drills by Ben Stoeger: Of Ben’s three books (the other two being Dry Fire and Practical Pistol), this is the one that I personally got the most out of. It’s very easy to waste time at the range setting up a drill that isn’t helpful, and this book is jammed full of ideas of how to make your live fire as productive as possible. Most of the drills can be replicated in dry fire too, if you’re in to that kind of thing.