Here are a few in my collection:
- Mining of Massive datasets by Rajamaran, Leskovic & Ullman
- Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber [website]
- Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David J.C. Mackay
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning & Schützeonly sample chapters
- Data Jujitsu by D.J. Patil
- Building Data Science Teams by D.J. Patil
Update [12/27/12]: adding in some additions from a hacker news discussion and the comments below (thanks guys):
- Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Manning, Raghavan and Schütze
- A first encounter with machine learning by Welling
- Gaussian processes for Machine Learning by C.E. Rasmussen
- The Elements of Statistical Learning, by Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman -- grandaddy of them all
- Introduction to Machine Learning by Smola, Vishwanathan
- Think Bayes by Downey