Comment by teleforce

For beginner I'd highly recommend this new book by Jonathan Bartlett, Electronics for Beginners: A Practical Introduction to Schematics, Circuits, and Microcontrollers:

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484259788

The book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics including the basic of amplifier topic that most of the electronics for beginners books ignored.

For electronics workbench typically you would have signal generator, oscilloscope, multimeter and power supply that can cost you some good money and they're not that integrated and programmable. For that I'd recommend this new many-in-one tool from Digilent namely Analog Discovery Pro that is better integrated and can be easily programmable:

https://digilent.com/blog/the-creation-of-the-analog-discove...

This new tool can perform many functionalities for testing and measurement purposes that are crucial for successful circuit design, analog or digital.

Together with the book and Analog Discovery Pro tool, you'll be loaded for the bear in your electronics adventure.