There are many book available in market for JAVA beginner, if you want to learn JAVA by your own. But they have more data and some boring concept. If you want to learn it more interestingly then try the book "Head First Java".
This book start your session from installation of jdk, so you don’t worry if you don’t know anything about java. This book clears your all concept. Book not contents only theory. On each page you found some images that are help you to clear all concept.
The book has categories in different different modules. At the end of the each chapter there are some programming and logical questions present. So you can tested your self that how much you learn from that chapter.
The book is specially design for students. The book sample is available in pdf format on web, so you can refer that also.