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Can confirm, I fell into this trap. Read books for about a year and realized I don't know shit and barely could code a hello world app. Then started actually applying those skills to hobby projects and learned 500x much more that way.

I'd say JS essential reading would be:

1. JavaScript the good parts - because classic

2. You don't know JS series - because depth

3. Functional JavaScript - because underscore

Then you're done. Go find a Node or front end framework tutorial and blast off from there. Build build build.

Save time and skip 1)

It's nice to know some historical context around this/hoisting. But it will come up in YDKJS too. Start your journey on ES6.

No amount of books will ever replace rote practice and just doing the work.