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The Java Programming Language, by Ken Arnold and James Gosling, Addison-Wesley, May 1996, has lots of details on the language basics for intermediate and advanced programmers. It covers threads and i/o packages, but not applets or windowing packages.
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All serious computer scientists should read to understand fundamentals
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Java Primer Plus, supercharging Web applications with the Java programming language, by Paul M. Tyma, Gabriel Torok, and Troy Downing, Sams.net, doesn't assume a lot of programming background, has chatty explanations and still covers lots of programming detail.
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Java, How to Program, by Deitel and Deitel, Prentice-Hall, starts with beginning programming concepts and progresses rapidly through Java language. It has the most programming exercises.
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