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Yup...so much for good intentions.

Thanks to everyone above I now have a list of almost a dozen that I have to have.

And highly recommend Sara Foster's books.

Two cookbooks in particular spring to mind:

The Nero Wolfe Cookbook for the Lamb Goulash with Vodka and The Ten Talents Cookbook for its cashew recipes. 

It's great reading about these underrated gems.

One author I have consistantly found to be reliable for good recipes is Liana Krissoff.  I especially like

Whole Grains for a New Generation and Canning for a New Generation.

Also love Bert Greene's Greens and Grains books.

Finally, a book that helped me learn to cook that I used so much it's falling apart: The Romantic Vegetarian by Judith Sharlin.  It's one of those hand-drawn, hand-lettered books a la Mollie Katzen's early ones.  But I loved the recipes and her writing when I was a young cook and cooked almost every recipe in there!

I also like Greene on Greens by Bert Greene.  My first foray into using kale with potatoes was from this book and it was ages before kale became mainstream.