I couldn't survive lesson planning without these:
Everyday Editing - Jeff Anderson
Mechanically Inclined - Jeff Anderson
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do - Kylene Beers
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - Linda Christensen
With Rigor for All - Carol Jago
I couldn't survive that "institutional press" without these:
See Me After Class - Roxanna Elden
Letters to a Young Teacher - Jonathan Kozol
An Unquiet Pedagogy - Eleanor Kutz and Hephzibah Roskelly
Favorite educational policy books:
Other People's Children - Lisa Delpit
The Making of Americans - E.D. Hirsch
The Death and Life of American Public Schools - Diane Ravitch