From the zero-learning JS you need to know a few books _ Basic knowledge

Primary reading:

"JavaScript advanced Programming": A very complete classic introductory book, known as the JavaScript Bible, detailed in detail, the latest version of the third edition has been released, the proposed purchase.
"JavaScript King return," Baidu's Web development project manager wrote, as a beginner's preparation for the introductory class tutorial is also good.

Intermediate Readings:

"javascript Authority Guide": Another JavaScript Bible, the explanation is also very detailed, belong to intermediate readings, recommended to buy.
"JavaScript.The.Good.Parts": Yahoo Daniel, JavaScript spiritual leader Douglas Crockford's masterpiece, although only more than 100 pages, but well-written Ah! It is strongly recommended to read.
High performance JavaScript "JavaScript advanced Programming": Another masterpiece by the author Nicholas C. Zakas.
"Eloquent JavaScript": This book is more than 200 pages, very short, through a few very classic examples (Aunt Emily's cat, miserable hermit, simulation biosphere, push box game, etc.) to introduce all aspects of JavaScript knowledge and application methods.

Advanced reading:

"JavaScript Patterns": The book introduces a variety of classic models, such as constructors, single cases, factories and so on, worth learning.
"Pro.JavaScript.Design.Patterns": Apress Publishing House to explain the JavaScript design mode of the book, Very good.
"Developing JavaScript Web Applications": To build a good book of rich application, for the MVC pattern has a more in-depth explanation, but also some of the library of the process to explain.
"Developing Large Web Applications": Not only the introduction of JavaScript, as well as CSS, HTML, but the introduction of the content is very good, really consider a large web program, how to do javascript architecture design, it is worth reading.
To be a good front-end engineer, you need to continue to work hard:" High-performance website Construction Guide", "Yahoo Engineer's website performance optimization Recommendations", "YSLOW" Performance optimization recommendations, "website refactoring", "Web Development Agile Way", "JQuery Library", "Front frame", "HTML5", "CSS3" ... All of these should be studied in depth!