There are many books for Usability, User Experience, etc. but if you are a hard core programmer, I would recommend "Designing Web Interfaces" is good for beginners and "Defensive Design For The Web".

Links: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Interfaces-Principles-In...

http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

Enjoy :)

Yeah, but the title part just gets ignored: http://www.amazon.com/I-Can-Basically-Put-Anything-I-Want-In...