The books about yoga in my library include:

I will be adding more books to my list as I include more books to my library.
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How to Use Yoga by Mira Mehta
	This is a good beginners guide to the Iyengar method of yoga. It includes illustrations and instructions for 41 postures and a 10-week course for beginning yoga students. It also includes a section of postures for problems such a headache, neck and shoulder pain, backache, stiff hips and a special program to follow during menstruation.
Yoga for Common Ailments by Dr. Robin Monro, Dr. Nagarathna, & Dr. Nagendra
	This is a very good book that shows you how to design and practice a daily yoga session using exercise, breathing techniques and meditation to both preserve your health and to aid recovery from specific ailments such as arthritis, asthma, back pain, bronchitis, cancer, common colds, depression, diabetes, fatigue, heart disease, hypertension, insomnia, obesity, PMS and others.
Yoga and You by Esther Myers
	This is a good book for the beginner as well as the more advanced yoga practitioner. Esther combines yoga philosophy with postures, breathing and meditation. She gives instructions and pictures for more than 100 poses from beginner to advanced ones. She provides many examples of ways to adapt the poses for individual needs and abilities.
Pocket Guide to Hatha Yoga by Michele Picozzi
	For a small book, this one has a lot of information about yoga. There is not too much in the way of examples, and illustrations of yoga postures, though.
Yoga for Your Life by Margaret D. Pierce & Martin G. Pierce
	I like this book and its "breathing and movement" style of performing the postures (called viniyoga). It contains a progressive 8-part program for beginners. The postures are taught in a flowing, sequential manner and breathing is integrated with the movements of the postures.
The Modern Book of Yoga by Anne Kent Rush
	This book provides a brief explanation of yoga meditation, breathing, postures and couples yoga. It is filled with attractive black and white photographs but doesn't give enough information to go along with them.
The Essentials of Yoga by Dinabandhu Sarley and Ila Sarley
	This is an excellent book for beginners and includes lots of basic information about yoga; instructions for many breathing techniques, standing and floor postures; suggested routines for many different circumstances and advice on making yoga an integral part of your everyday life.
Yoga for Your Spiritual Muscles by Rachel Schaeffer
	This is a good book for beginners as well as for more experienced yoga practitioners. It is a unique yoga program that combines specific yoga postures, breathing, and relaxation techniques to consciously develop and strengthen particular inner qualities such as awareness, acceptance, focus, flexibility, balance, confidence, peace, strength, compassion, energy, playfulness and connectedness.
Beth Shaw's Yogafit by Beth Shaw
	This book presents a fitness program that combines aerobic exercise with strength and flexibility-building yoga to create a total body workout. It illustrates more than 50 poses and organizes them into three different well-rounded workout routines. There also is information on how to use YogaFit as a cross-training tool for different sports and how to create your own personalized routines to meet your own individual needs. There is a workout video and a music CD which can be purchased from Beth's web site to go along with the program.
Yoga for Stress Relief by Swami Shivapremananda
	This is a very good book that can be helpful for relieving and preventing stress. It begins with an explanation of the psychology and the physiology of stress. Then it illustrates a 12-week, step-by-step program detailing the appropriate postures, breathing exercises and meditations for the relief and prevention of stress. It also contains a useful chart with further explanations as to which of the dozens of poses are especially effective for alleviating particular stress-related ailments such as heart disease, hypertension, digestive disorders, diabetes, asthma, arthritis, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, depression, addiction, and panic attacks. It also includes yoga for the elderly and yoga in pregnancy.
Learn Yoga in a Weekend by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
	I like this book. It has basic information for beginners to start a yoga practice. It includes easy, beginner poses to start with and also more advanced ones to work towards in the future, if you'd like.
Yoga Mind & Body by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center
	This is a very good book about yoga. It is divided into five sections: proper exercise, yogic breathing, proper relaxation, vegetarian diet and meditation. It is full of interesting and useful information with plenty of pictures. The book explains the 12 basic postures very well and then goes on to show many more advanced variations.
Simple Yoga by Cybele Tomlinson
	This is a very good basic book to learn about yoga. It explains what yoga is, how it evolved in ancient India and some of the benefits. It discusses the various styles of yoga and offers suggestions for choosing a style and for finding an appropriate teacher. There also is information on yoga for women, for kids, the elderly and the disabled. It includes a basic routine for readers to try on their own as well as a routine for the office place. This book is fairly short but includes a lot of practical information in an easy-to-understand style.
I Can't Believe It's Yoga by Lisa Trivell
	This is a short, practical book about the basics of Yoga and how anyone can integrate it into their everyday activities with as little as 10 minutes, 3 times a week and 30 minutes on weekends. It includes many suggested routines and several variations of the Sun Salutation for a balanced, progressive yoga routine that stretches almost every major muscle group in the body.
Practicing Yoga Postures Workbook by Connie Weiss
	This is a workbook of postures arranged so that each posture page segment can be cut apart and posture routines can be easily created by arranging the postures in different orders. It makes creating a yoga routine easy to follow and to change whenever you'd like to.

The books about meditation in my library include:

The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson, MD
	This is a good book written by a medical doctor based on studies performed at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Beth Israel Hospital using a form of transcendental meditation to treat people with hypertension. It is a simple meditation technique that can be used by anyone to help cope with fatigue, anxiety and stress.
Meditation for Dummies by Stephan Bodian
	This is a very good book by the former editor-in-chief of Yoga Journal who also was a Zen monk. The book contains lots of basic information about meditation and includes many meditation exercises to try. I especially like the last 2 chapters which answer the top ten questions asked about meditation and ten favorite, all-purpose meditations (plus two).
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meditation by Joan Budilovsky and Eve Adamson
	This is an excellent book on meditation and one of the best I have read. It contains extensive information about all kinds of meditation and is very readable and interesting. I highly recommend it.
The Best Guide to Meditation by Victor N. Davich
	This is an excellent and extensive guide to meditation for beginners as well as those who already meditate. I especially like the meditation practice exercises that accompany the explanation of the different types of meditation techniques so you can experience them for yourself.
Principles of Meditation by Christina Feldman
	This is an excellent introductory guide to meditation with information on various styles of meditation including concentration, mindfulness and devotional practices. It has useful ideas for implementing a formal meditation session and also ways to include meditation in your daily activities.
The Joy Within - A beginners's guide to meditation by Joan Goldstein & Manuela Soares
	This is a short, introductory guide to meditation with many exercises to learn how to develop meditation skills through breathing techniques, visualization and sensory awareness. There is also a day-by-day, four-week program for incorporating meditation into your daily life.
Meditation for Busy People by Dawn Groves
	This is a practical, easy-to-read introductory book on meditation for busy people who would like to meditate but don't think they have the time. There is also a very helpful chapter on staying motivated when you get bored or discouraged with your meditation practice and a quick meditation technique to use when unexpected stressful situations occur.
Instant Meditation For Stress Relief by John Hudson
	This is a small, introductory book on meditation with simple exercises that you can apply to any situation and use anytime and anywhere. Meditative techniques include the use of colors, sound, objects, affirmations and visualization for all sorts of situations.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
	This is a very good book about mindfulness meditation written in a very readable and interesting style. The book is divided into three parts: first, why meditate; second, how to meditate; and then third, applications for meditation. This book is one you can return to later, any time you need inspiration and help dealing with the stresses of everyday life.
Beginner's Guide to Meditation by Goswami Kriyananda
	This is a short book with some basic instructions for meditation based on yoga; specifically kriya yoga. It discusses several styles of meditation but mainly emphasizes mantra meditation.
How to Meditate by Lawrence LeShan
	This is a good book about meditation. It is fairly deep and theoretical, though; and doesn't have as much practical, how-to information as I would have liked. There is an audio tape version also called "How To Meditate" by Lawrence LeShan that I found more useful.
How To Meditate by John Novak
	This book gives instructions for meditation based on traditional yoga practices. It includes yogic breathing techniques for relaxing the mind and body, techniques for developing devotion and intuition and Yoga philosophy from Pantanjali's Eightfold Path.
101 Essential Tips: Basic Meditation by Naomi Ozaniec
	This is a very good, introductory book on meditation. It includes a lot of basic information in a short, easy-to-read manual.
Meditation Made Easy by Lorin Roche, Ph.D.
	This is a very good, easy to read, practical guide to meditation that takes an informal approach to help keep meditation simple. It includes exercises and mini-meditations that can be integrated into spare moments throughout the day. It contains suggestions on how to turn details of everyday experience--such as drinking coffee--into a mini-meditation. It has a very good chapter on overcoming obstacles, such as boredom, distractions, racing thoughts, and the pressure "to do it right." The theme of this book is that meditation should be something you look forward to and want to do rather than something you need to do or have to do.

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