2016 Simpson, John, The Word Detective: A Life in Words: from Serendipity to Selfie, London: Little, Brown.

2016 Gilliver, Peter, The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2013 Jackson, Howard (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Lexicography, London: Bloomsbury.

2013 Ogilvie, Sarah, Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

2010 Béjoint, Henri, The lexicography of English: from origins to present, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010 Granger, Sylviane & Magali Paquot (eds), eLexicography in the 21st Century: New challenges, new applications, Presses universitaires de Louvain

2010 de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (ed.), A way with words: recent advances in lexical theory and analysis: a festschrift for Patrick Hanks, Kampala: Menha Publishers.

2009 Svensén, Bo,  A Handbook of Lexicography: the theory and practice of dictionary-making, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2009 Cowie, A. P. (ed.), The Oxford History of English Lexicography, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

2009 Nielsen, Sandro & Sven Tarp, Lexicography in the 21st century: in honour of Henning Bergenholtz, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2009 Bergenholtz, Henning, Sandro Nielsen & Sven Tarp (eds), Lexicography at a Crossroads: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Today, Lexicographical Tools Tomorrow, Berne: Peter Lang.

2008 Considine, John, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage, New York: Cambridge University Press.

2008 Atkins, B.T. Sue, & Michael Rundell, The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography,
New York: Oxford University Press.

2008 Fontenle, Thierry, Practical Lexicography: a reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007 Brewer, Charlotte, Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED, New Haven & London: Yale University Press.

2006 Zgusta, Ladislav, Lexicography, Then and Now: Selected Essays, (Lexicographica 129, Fredric F. M. Dolezal & Thomas B. I. Creamer eds), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.

2005 Mugglestone, Lynda, Lost for Words: the hidden history of the Oxford English Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press.

2003 Hartmann, R.R.K., Lexicography: Critical Concepts, 3 vols, London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

2002 Jackson, Howard, Lexicography: an introduction, London: Routledge.

2001 Landau, Sidney I., Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd edn,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001 Hartmann, R.R.K., Teaching and Researching Lexicography, Harlow: Pearson Education.

2001 Hartmann, R.R.K. & G. James, Dictionary of Lexicography, London: Routledge.

2000 Béjoint, Henri, Modern Lexicography: an introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2000 Mugglestone, Lynda (ed.), Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest, Oxford: Oxford iversity Press.

1998 Hartmann, R.R.K. & G. James, Dictionary of Lexicography, London: Routledge.

1996 Green, Jonathon, Chasing the Sun: dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made,
London: Jonathan Cape.

1995 Bergenholtz, Henning & Sven Tarp (eds), Manual of Specialised Lexicography: the preparation of specialised dictionaries, lexicographical tools tomorrow, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1994 Atkins, B.T. S., & A. Zampolli (eds), Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1994 Béjoint, Henri, Tradition and Innovation in Modern English Dictionaries, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1994 Willinsky, John, Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

1993 Berg, Donna Lee, A Guide to theOxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1990 Reddick, Allen, The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746–1773,  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1987 Burchfield, Robert (ed.), Studies in Lexicography, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1985 Wierzbicka, Anna, Lexicography and conceptual analysis, Karoma: Ann Arbor.

1983 Hartmann, R.R.K., Lexicography: principles and practice, London: Acadmeic Press.

1980 Zgusta, Ladislav (ed.), Theory and method in lexicography: western and non-western perspectives, Columbia: Hornbeam Press.

1977 Murray, K. M. Elisabeth, Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press.

1971 Zgusta, Ladislav, Manual of Lexicography,  The Hague: Mouton.