Catherine:

My favorite: HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide By Elizabeth Castro (who as a side benefit is both a Cat person and a Catalonian nationalist of sorts.)

She’s got another good-looking one that I just ordered: Creating a Web Page with HTML : Visual QuickProject Guide

This guy’s listmania page has some other good stuff — the O’Reilly Pocket Guide is quite handy.