Books I have studied about testing in a somewhat random order.

• Lessons Learned in Software Testing
• Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
• Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an Extreme Testing Environment
• How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing
• Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
• Testing Computer Software
• Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
• Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect

Books that inspire me:

• Monday usually starts on sunday (strugatsky)
• Surely you’re joking mr Feynman! (Richard P. Feynman)
• The art of deception (Kevin Mitnick)
• The art of intrusion (Kevin Mitnick)
• The Baroque cycle
• Anathem
• Jeff Noon