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The 'best' introductory book for learning Haskell is Graham Hutton's 'Programming in Haskell'. It focuses on the essentials of the language, and its clear, spare presentation is in the spirit of Haskell itself. And it is accessible to everyone.

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+1 for this, also check out Graham's io9 video on the Counting Problem. The solution is beautiful and really got me excited about Haskell when I was first learning:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...

I was actually thinking of going with this since it seemed to focus on the foundations of lambda calculus and is also fairly condensed. I was thinking I might try "The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia" as a follow up just cause it sounded satisfying.

Hudak's 'Haskell School of Expression' is also full of much Haskell wisdom and spirit.

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