As a general reference, we will use an excellent book covering most of the new areas in complexity theory : Complexity Theory: A Modern Approach - Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak.
There are plenty of very good introductory books in classical complexity theory
- Structural Complexity I & II - Jose Luis Balcazar, Joseph Diaz and Joaquim Gabarro.
- Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective, by Goldreich (free drafts).
- Computational Complexity - Christos H. Papadimitriou.
- Theory of Computational Complexity - Ding-Zhu Du and Ker-I Ko.
- Introduction to Circuit Complexity: A Uniform Approach - Heribert Vollmer
- Complexity Theory Lecture Notes - Eric Allender
- Lectures on the Fusion Method and Derandomization (lectures by Avi Wigderson).
- Around the PCP Theorem - Lectures by Sanjeev Arora
- Introduction to Complexity Theory Two sets of Lecture Notes - Oded Goldreich
- Advanced Complexity Theory - Madhu Sudan
- Lecture Notes on Computational Complexity - Luca Trevisan
- Lectures in Computational Complexity, by Jin Yi Cai
- Dieter van Melkebeek's lecture notes.
- Paul Beame's lecture notes.
- Peter Bro Miltersen's lecture notes.
- Kristoffer Hansen's Course.
- Chris Umans's lecture notes.
- Johan Hastad's lecture notes.
- Andrej Bogdanov's lecture notes.
- Dan Spielman's lecture notes.
- Moni Naor's lecture notes.
- Jaikumar Radhakrishnan's lecture notes.
- Steven Rudich's lecture notes.