Vulgarization:
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (book)
Beyond String Theory by Jan Troost
String Theory on Wikipedia by various authors
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and PBS
Historical Introduction to String Theory by John Schwartz
Superstrings by John Pierre
String Theory introduced at Paris Ecole Normale Superieure
String Theory introduced at Cambridge DAMTP
String Theory Website by Patricia Schwartz
Introductory books:
A first course in String Theory by B. Zwiebach
Reference works (advanced):
Superstring Theory (2 volumes) by M. Green, J. Schwarz and E. Witten
String Theory (2 volumes) by J. Polchinski
String Theory in a Nutshell by E. Kiritsis
Books (advanced):
String Theory and M-Theory by K. Becker, M. Becker and J. Schwarz
D-branes by C. Johnson
An Introduction to String Theory and D-branes by R. Szabo
Gravity and Strings by T. Ortin
Lectures on String Theory by D. Lust and S. Theisen
Recommended on-line resources (advanced):
Introduction to Superstring Theory by E. Kiritsis
On-line resources (advanced):
What is string theory ? by Joe Polchinski
String theory on Calabi-Yau compactifications by Brian Greene
High energy physics database (SPIRES) by SLAC
The Arxiv (the database of recent papers) by P. Ginsparg at Los Alamos / Cornell
Other resources (advanced):
A pen, paper, and a computer with software, by various authors
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