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What are the best books for gluten free baking - both alternative flours and gf white flour with xanthan added?

There are 121 GF baking books in the EYB Library. Many of those books are indexed so you can take a look at the recipes and see what appeals to you.  I have recently got a lot more into GF baking as one of my best friends and my daughter are gluten intolerant. There are of course lots of GF recipes in regular baking books too, or recipes that are easily made GF. These are some recipes I have had great success with:

Belinda's flourless coconut & chocolate cake from Sweet by Ottolenghi & Goh
Celebration cake also from Sweet (great for a large party)
Flourless chocolate lime cake from Nigella's Kitchen (make sure you do the margarita cream too)
Torta alla gianduia (Nutella cake) from How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella
Orange almond cake by Claudia Roden

Although Sweet isn't a GF baking book it's a fantastic book (check out our Facebook bake-along club) and does contain quite a few GF recipes (30). Probably other non-GF recipes can be made GF - I have made the Coconut, almond & blueberry cake using GF baking blend and couldn't tell the difference from the regular recipe.

I have coeliac disease and have tried many, many gluten-free baking books.  The best I have found were those by Phil Vickery (Seriously good gluten free baking) and the River Cottage gluten-free book by Naomi Devlin.  Both of these are British books and therefore use weights not cup measurements, so this may not be of interest to you.  Some of the US books I've had some success with include those from Babycakes, the New York bakery.

In recent years I've stopped buying gluten-free cook books as they are often disappointing.  These days you can buy excellent gluten-free flour mixes (saving you having 5 or more different types of flour taking space in the cupboard!) and I simply use these in normal recipes, substituting by weight.  When I lived in the US I used Cup4Cup flour with excellent results for most things (and you can substitute by cup measure as the name implies). I also bought some fantastic bread mixes online from https://www.lucegfbread.com - makes really fantastic bread which I miss since moving back to Europe. 

Alternative Baker and Flavor Flours are both 100% gf and great baking books in their own right, regardless of the whole gf thing. I've been baking gf for 13 years and regular for longer.