Elysian Shadows

I am currently designing a game, and would like to make an easy way to add items to my game, I'm thinking in a way of a scripting language but don't know which is the best to use with c++, or which books are useful, any suggestions?

your question is not specific.

Yea, elaborate more on what your question is. However, I would recommend Lua as your scripiting language, it has an easy syntax and there are add-ons like toLua++ or LuaBind that wrap C++ classes for you to lua, like an item system, so you can add items from Lua itself.