best photography books for a newbie

I'm placing an amazon order soon and would like to get some books on photography.  I plan to get one of Bryan Petersen's basic books but wondering if there would be another that would be good to get to go along with it.

 These first 3 are great:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=photography&x=13&y=16

The Digital Photography Books by Kelby are quick reads so you might be able to get away with just going to your local bookstore and reading them one in a sitting.

When I was asking about this earlier, someone reminded me to check what my library had. Great advice. It's saved me at least $100 by checking books out of the library. My library system had both of the Scott Kelby books, Digital SLR and Photography for Dummies and a photography book by John Hedgecoe (can't remember the name, I'll eta when I find it). Might be worth seeing what they have so you don't buy something you can get for free.

ETA: 2 of the books I got from the library that I really like are: The Book of Photography by John Hedgecoe (1995, DK publishers) good book about taking pictures in general.  I also really like Step-By-Step Digital Photography by Jack & Sue Drafahl (Copyright page is torn out of book, Amherst Media publishers). Step-By-Step is really simplistic and I almost didn't check it out because I thought it looked too simple, but it is really helpful because I have a hard time understanding a lot of the technical stuff about photography. Turns out I need simple.

 Yes, that's a great idea, I always go overboard when it comes to buying books of any kind, lol.

Well I decided on Bryan Petersen's Understanding Photography: Techniques for Getting Great Pictures.  My local library did have this book and I looked through it but I think I'd like to have it for more than 2 weeks to read sections over again at my leisure.  I do hope to buy the books by Scott Kelby that you recommended Angela as my library doesn't have those.  I haven't checked on the other books recommended yet.