A year ago, I was new too, but I didn't read a single book, however, I can recommend some sites:
delphi.about.com[
^]
http://delphibasics.co.uk/[
^] - Where I learnt it.
P.S even though delphibasics.co.uk teaches an old version of Delphi, it doesn't matter, I learnt to use Delphi XE2 from there.