One of the main books that I read when I was learning was reading this huge, thick book called Structured Probabilistic Models by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman.
Ian Goodfellow, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs
Daphne Koller was this genius that got her PhD at a super young age and then became faculty super young at Stanford.
Ian Goodfellow, Ian Goodfellow on Inventing GANs