I'd echo what moresound has said. There's lots of good info on these threads. Lots of different and interesting views, ideas, things that generally have been tried and tested by peoples' experience. However, sometimes, one just wants to read a book and to that end, there are literally hundreds of books you could read. A good quickie one is "101 recording tips" by Adam St James. "Guerilla recording" by Karl Coryat has it's moments, "The mixing engineer's handbook" by Bobby Owsinski is pretty good, "Emergency first aid for home recording" by Paul White has some useful sections.
Even books on mixing often overlap into recording techniques.
Personally, I've learned lots from interviews with engineers and producers. "Behind the glass" by Howard Massey, "Good vibrations" by Mark Cunningham, "The record producers" by John Tobler and Stuart Grundy, all fall into this category, along with others. When I first began recording in '92, I hadn't even heard of the internet so much of the info that I picked up came from interviews, offhand remarks and stories. But coz that's how I picked up bits and pieces, I tend to recommend it. With the online availability of advice and info, you may not want to go that route though I think you'll pick up tons that way.
Have fun ! And above all experiment. Try daft things. There's a thread currently running where home recorders share their innovations and it's staggering at how much people have arrived at their own devices.
