You can't go wrong with a book on mvc from four of the most active programmers and contributors to the project in the community: Phil Haack, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, and K. Scott Allen. This book provides all the information you need to be productive with MVC version 3 including in-depth reviews of the plumbing that drives the framework. Buy it today. 'Nuff said.

Yet another tome in the SOA series from Thomas Erl. This one will deals with mapping Erls' service oriented patterns and principles onto .NET technologies, primarily WCF and Azure. Erls first book on SOA set the standard for SOA literature and this book follows in that tradition. Here is part one in a series of interviews on SOA certification for your viewing pleasure.

This is a must have for any ASP.NET developer creating consumer apps on the web. Author Richard Kiessig has been an active contributor to the asp.net forums. The lesson here is every byte counts - this overarching principle is timeless. We can't stress enough what an important read this book is. We don't know of another book that explores these concepts for the ASP.NET developer.