Well timed with the recent release of Boost 1.55, a new Reddit thread just highlighted two useful books about Boost:

The first book is available online, with a second edition released in print in 2011:

The Boost C++ Libraries

by Boris Schäling

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Smart Pointers
• Chapter 3: Function Objects
• Chapter 4: Event Handling
• Chapter 5: String Handling
• Chapter 6: Multithreading
• Chapter 7: Asynchronous Input and Output
• Chapter 8: Interprocess Communication
• Chapter 9: Filesystem
• Chapter 10: Date and Time
• Chapter 11: Serialization
• Chapter 12: Parser
• Chapter 13: Containers
• Chapter 14: Data Structures
• Chapter 15: Error Handling
• Chapter 16: Cast Operators

The second, the subject of the Reddit thread, was this new release:

Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook

by Antony Polukhin

Overview

• Explores how to write a program once and then use it on Linux, Windows, MacOS, and Android operating systems
• Includes everyday use recipes for multithreading, networking, metaprogramming,  and generic programming from a Boost library developer
• Take advantage of the real power of Boost and C++ to get a good grounding in using it in any project

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Starting to Write Your Application
• Chapter 2: Converting Data
• Chapter 3: Managing Resources
• Chapter 4: Compile-time Tricks
• Chapter 5: Multithreading
• Chapter 6: Manipulating Tasks
• Chapter 7: Manipulating Strings
• Chapter 8: Metaprogramming
• Chapter 9: Containers
• Chapter 10: Gathering Platform and Compiler Information
• Chapter 11: Working with the System
• Chapter 12: Scratching the Tip of the Iceberg