| Author, Title, Publisher if known, date of publication | * |
| Ainsworth, S, O’Neill, B & Mitchell, A, Nostalgic Reading, True North Books, 2012 | |
| Alexander, Alan, Borough Government and Politics. Reading 1835-1985, 1985 | |
| Alfred Sutton Primary School, Alfred Sutton Primary School: Memories of One Hundred Years, 2002 | |
| Allen, J R L, Kerbside Geology in Reading, Berkshire: aspects of historical archaeology in the expanding town c.1840-1914, Archaeopress, 2015 | |
| Allon, Henry, Memoirs of the Rev. James Sherman, 1864 | |
| Allsopp, Terry, Caught on Camera, Reading in the 70s, Two Rivers, 2015. | |
| Allsopp, Terry, Newtown, A Photographic Journey in Reading 1974, Two Rivers, 2012. | |
| Amos, Katie and Cooper, Mike, Coley and Coley Park, An Historical Introduction, undated c. 2018 | |
| Amos, Katie, The Mansion House: its History and its Occupants, Scallop Shell, 2016 | |
| Amos, Katie, The Timms Family of Reading and London: artists, photographers, designers and craftsmen, Scallop Shell, 2014 | |
| Amyce, Roger. Survey of the Borough of Reading, 1552. (Original in The National Archives, Misc. Bks. Land Rev. Vol. 187, ff.314-47; copy at Reading Central Library) | |
| Andrew, Martin, Francis Frith’s Around Reading, Frith Book Company, 2000 | |
| Andrews, Martin, Fox Talbot & the Reading Establishment, Two Rivers, 2014 | |
| Andrews, Martin, Life and Work of Robert Gibbings, Primrose Hill, 2003 | |
| Anon, Reading from God’s Perspective, Tilehurst Free Church, 1997 [religious history of Reading] | |
| Anon, Reading Seventy Years Ago: a record of Events from 1813 to 1819, Reading, 1887 | |
| Arnold, H. Godwin & Gold, Sidney, Morris of Reading, A Family of Architects, Ancient Monuments Society, 1989. | * |
| Arnold, H. Godwin, Victorian Architecture in Reading, Reading Civic Society, 1976 | |
| Arts Asia Team, In India’s Image, Reading Museum, 2018 | |
| Aspinall et al, A., Parliament through Seven Centuries: Reading and its MPs, 1962 | |
| Ayres, May & Saunders, Keith, As Stupid as Oxen, A history of the Reading and Silchester Methodist Circuit, 1988 | |
| B., J. R., An Account of the Manor of Tylehurst, 1834 | |
| Babbage, Terry, Tylehurst Described, an historical account, Reading Libraries, 1976 | |
| Bamford, R & Stallworthy, D, A History of Reading Speedway: in celebration of 25 Years at Smallmead, R. Bamford, 2000. | |
| Barnes-Philips, Daphne, Hands of Friendship: The Story of Reading’s Twinning Links, Corridor, 2003 | |
| Barnes-Philips, Daphne, Long may Our Lion Roar 140 years of Kendrick School, Corridor, 2017 | |
| Barnes-Philips, Daphne, So Many Hearts Make a School: the Centenary of the George Palmer Schools, Reading, Corridor, 2007 | |
| Barnes-Philips, Daphne, The Top of Whitley, Corridor, 2002. [later revised, 2013] | |
| Barnes-Philips, Daphne, This is Our School Reading British School 1811-2011, Corridor, 2011 | |
| Bassett, John, A Brief History of The Reading British School, KIND, 2000 | |
| Baxter, Ron, The Royal Abbey of Reading, Boydell, 2016 | |
| Beardmore, Alan, Samuel Elliott & Sons, 2006 [also Supplement, 2008] | |
| Belford, Barbara, Oscar Wilde, A Certain Genius, Bloomsbury, 2000 | |
| Berkshire County Council, Industrial Berkshire, C. 1996 | |
| Berkshire County Council, Mediaeval Berkshire, C. 1997 | |
| Berkshire Family History Association, Monumental Inscriptions of Reading Cemetery 1843-1995, BFHS, 1995 | |
| Berkshire Local History Association, Berkshire Old and New, annual publication [see also individual authors of Reading-specific articles, ref. BON] | * |
| Bilton, David, Reading in the Great War 1914 – 1916, Pen and Sword Books, 2016 | |
| Bilton, David, Reading in the Great War 1917-19, Pen and Sword Books, 2016 | |
| Bishop, Martin, Bats, Balls and Biscuits, A Brief History of Cricket at the Reading Biscuit Factory, undated, post-2007 | |
| Bowcock, P, & Marr, P (eds), The Organ in Reading Town Hall, Berkshire Organists Assoc., 2000 | |
| British Trolleybus Society, Poles Down, 50th Anniversary of Reading Trolleybus System Closure, Reading Museum, 2018 | |
| Brod, Manfred, The Case of Reading. Urban Governance in Troubled Times 1640-90, Upfront, 2006 | |
| Brooks, Agnes, Malvern House School Addington Road Reading, 2013 | |
| Brown, Jonathan, Barrett, Exall and Andrewes: the Reading Iron Works: the firm and its products, Road Locomotive Society, 2010 | |
| Brugge, Roger, and Burt, Steve, One Hundred Years of Reading Weather, UR, 2015 | |
| Buckley, Angela, Amelia Dyer and the Baby Farm Murders, Manor Vale, 2016 | |
| Butts, Dennis, From the Abbey to the Office, Reading and its writers, Two Rivers, 2008 | |
| Calista, Sister, From Acorn to Oak 1909-1959: The History of St Joseph’s Convent, Broadoak, 1959 | |
| Carus, W., Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A., Hatchard, 1847 | |
| Casey, Molly, The Story of Hemdean House, Hemdean House School, Caversham, 1984 | |
| Caversham Court, Friends of, Caversham Court gardens: A heritage Guide, 2012 | |
| Caversham Hill Chapel, Caversham Hill Chapel A Brief History 1827-1977, c. 1977 | |
| Cecil, Rev. Richard, Memoir of the Rev. William Bromley Cadogan, 1798 | |
| Cennick, John, ed. Watson, Graeme, Celestial Anthems, Culver, 2001. [includes life of Reading-born hymn-writer] | |
| Childs, Prof. W M, The Story of the Town of Reading, Reading, 1905 | |
| Childs, Prof. W M, The Town of Reading during the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, Reading, 1910 | |
| Clapson, Mark, A Working Class Suburb: social change on an English council estate [Whitley, Reading] 1930-2010, Manchester UP, 2011 | |
| Clark, Gillian (ed), Correspondence of the Foundling Hospital Inspectors in Berkshire, Berkshire Record Society, 1994 | |
| Clark, Gillian, Down by the River, Two Rivers, 2009 | |
| Cliffe, David, Picture Palace to Penny Plunge, Two Rivers, 2017 | * |
| Cliffe, David, Praise in the Heights, The Centenary History of Caversham Heights Methodist Church, 2009 | * |
| Cliffe, David, Roots and Branches, the Centenary History of Battle and Caversham Libraries, Two Rivers, 2007 | * |
| Cliffe, David, The Reading Natural History Society and its Records, BON 32, 2015 | * |
| Cliffe, David, The Stranger in Reading, Reading Libraries, 1978 & 1980 | * |
| Clifford, Sue (ed), Berkshire Schools in the Eighteenth Century, Berkshire Record Society, 2019 | |
| Coates, Alan, English Mediaeval Books: the Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal, OUP. 1999 | |
| Coates, Rev. Charles, The History and Antiquities of Reading, 1802 | |
| Colborne, George, Memoirs of the Rev W Legg, BA, 1871 | |
| Coley Local History Group, More Talking of Old Coley, Reading, 1991 | |
| Coley Local History Group, Talking of Old Coley, Reading, 1990 | |
| Cooper, John James, Some Worthies of Reading, Swarthmore, 1923 | |
| Cooper, Mike & Bond, Janet, A Hamlet called “Harmour”: the story of Armour Road, Armour Road History Group, 2001. [Revised 2013 for Reading Libraries with new subtitle] | |
| Cooper, Mike & Parkes, Ray, Reading’s International Brigades Memorial, Reading International Brigades Memorial Trust, 2017 | |
| Cooper, Mike & Parkes, Ray, We Cannot Park on both Sides, Reading International Brigades Memorial Committee, 2000 | |
| Cooper, Mike, Early Closing Day. Air raids on Reading 1939-1945, Scallop Shell, 2016 | |
| Cooper, Mike, Southcote: An Historical Introduction, 2016 | |
| Cooper, Mike, Tilehurst: An Historical Introduction, 2016 | |
| Corley, T. A. B., Huntley & Palmers of Reading 1822-1972, 1972 | |
| Corley, Tony, A Small Berkshire Enterprise: J. Dymore Brown & Son, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 1978 | |
| Corley, Tony, revised Simonds, Raymond, H. & G. Simonds Ltd., Reading, 2009 | |
| Cowslade, Ellenor, ed. Mullaney, L, The Cowslade Manuscript: an eye witness account of the return of Catholicism to Reading, Scallop Shell, 2012 | |
| Cox, Gordon, Adult Singing Schools in Berkshire, BON 15, 1998 | * |
| Cox, Gordon, Music in Nineteenth-Century Reading: A Family History, 2020 | * |
| Cox, Mike, Waterloo Sunset, Katesgrove Community Book Project, 1999 | |
| Cram, Leslie, Reading Abbey, 1988 | |
| Crisp, Derek, The History of Christ Church CE Primary School Reading 1868-2000, 2000 | |
| Croft, Alan, There’s Always Risk in Movement: Tales from old Reading, Xlibris, 2018 | |
| Crooks, Tim/ Reading Museum, Bikes, Balls and Biscuitmen, Two Rivers, 2012 | |
| Cusden, Phoebe, Coley – portrait of an urban village, Reading WEA, 1977 | |
| Darter, William, Memoirs of an Octogenarian, 1889. [Also available in abbreviated version ed. Phillips, Daphne q.v., 1985.] | |
| Davis, C. A., History of the Baptist Church in Reading, 1891 | |
| Dearing John, Beautiful the Landscape, SMCS, 2007 | * |
| Dearing John, St Mary’s Castle Street, A Brief and Architectural Guide, SMCS, 2001 | * |
| Dearing, John, Cliffe, David & Williams, Evelyn, Abbot Cook to Zero Degrees: An A to Z of Reading’s Pubs and Breweries, History of Reading Society, 2021 | * |
| Dearing, John, Dictionary of Berkshire Brewers, privately published, 2013 | * |
| Dearing, John, John Wesley came to Reading, SMCS, 2003 | * |
| Dearing, John, Reading Pubs, History Press, 2009 | * |
| Dearing, John, Sent from Reading, Reading’s Part in Overseas Missions 1790-1950, 2021 | * |
| Dearing, John, Some Hymn-writers connected with Reading, SMCS, 2004 | * |
| Dearing, John, The Church that would Not Die, Baron Birch, 1993 | * |
| Dearing, John, The Parson as Sleuth: William Talbot and Jonathan Britain, BON 16, 1999 | * |
| Defoe, Daniel, Tour through the Whole Island of Britain, Penguin English Library, 1971 | |
| Deloney, Thomas, Jacke of Newburie and Thomas of Reading in Shorter Elizabethan Novels, Everyman, 1929 | |
| Diary of the Corporation, 1654-1688. Transcription by J. H. Sacret, at Reading Central Library. Original documents in Berkshire Record Office, catalogued as Minutes of the Unreformed Corporation. | |
| Dickens, Charles (junior), Dictionary of the Thames, 1892 | * |
| Dils, Joan (ed), Reading St Laurence’s Churchwarden Accounts, 1498-1570. 2 vols. Berkshire Record Society, 2013 | * |
| Dils, Joan (ed), Reading Turnpikes. | * |
| Dils, Joan and Yates, Margaret, An Historical Atlas of Berkshire, Berkshire Record Society, 2012 [Second edition]. | * |
| Dils, Joan, A Suburban Trio: Earley, Tilehurst and Caversham 1851-1911, BON 17, 2000 | * |
| Dils, Joan, ed., Reading St Laurence Churchwardens’ Accounts, 1498-1570, Berkshire Record Society, 2013 | * |
| Dils, Joan, Reading A History, Carnegie, 2019 | * |
| Directories, various. Billings, Kelly, Macaulay, Pigot, Post Office, Robson, Slater etc. | |
| Ditchfield, P H, Reading Seventy Years Ago Reading 1887 | |
| Ditchfield, Revd. P H, An Ecclesiastical History of Reading, Blackwell, 1883 | |
| Dix, Frank, Royal River Highway, David & Charles, 1985 | |
| Doran, John, History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading, Samuel Reader, 1835 | |
| Dormer, Ernest (ed.), Royal Berkshire Hospital, 1837-1937, Poynder, 1937 | |
| Dormer, Ernest W, Gray of Reading, 1923 | |
| Dormer, Ernest W, The Parish & Church of St Peter, Earley, C Nicholls & Co Ltd, 1944 | |
| Downs, David, and Edwards, Leigh, The Definitive Reading F.C.: a Statistical History to 1998, Tony Brown, 1998. | |
| Downs, David, Reading Football Club 1871 – 1997, The Chalford Publishing Company, 1997 | |
| Durrant, Peter, and Painter, John, Reading Abbey and the Abbey Quarter, Two Rivers, 2018 | |
| Earley Local History Group, Earley Days: an illustrated account of our community’s development, ELHG, 2000 | |
| Earley Local History Group, Earley Memories: A century of change, ELHG, 2004 | |
| Earley Local History Group, Suttons Seeds A History 1806-2006, ELHG, 2006 | |
| Egby, Henry, Edgar and Other Poems selected from Rhymes and Romances of Reading Abbey, Bradley, 1922 | |
| Emmer Green Residents Association, Emmer Green Past and Present, EGRA, 2001 | |
| English Martyrs Parish History Group, A Red Brick Church in a Red Brick Town: Celebrating 75 Years of the Church of the English Martyrs, 2002 | |
| Field, Marion, Historic England – Reading, Amberley, 2018 | |
| Figgis, Darrell, A Chronicle of Jails, Talbot Press, 1918 [by Irishman interned in Reading Gaol] | |
| Ford, Ben & others, Under the Oracle. Excavations at the Oracle Shopping Centre site 1996-8, Oxford Archaeology, 2013 | |
| Fostekew, Jean, Blossom, A biography of Mrs F.G. Miles, The Book Factory, 1998 | |
| Fox, Norman, Berkshire to Botany Bay, Littlefield Publishing, 1995 | |
| Francis, Dick, The Sport of Queens, Pan Books, 1974 | |
| Friends of Caversham Court Gardens, Caversham Court Gardens, A Heritage Guide, Two Rivers, 2012 | |
| Fulford, Ben, Effect of the Great Awakening on Reading¸ BON 15, 1998 | |
| Fulford, Michael, Silchester Revealed, The Iron Age and Roman Town of Calleva, Windgather, 2021 | |
| Fulford, Michael, Silchester Roman Town, English Heritage Guidebook, English Heritage, 2016 | |
| Fuller, Jack, Huntley and Palmers, beyond cake and biscuits, 2019 | |
| Games, Gwilym, Boats, Biscuits and a Ballad: Oscar Wilde in the Thames Valley, BON 18, 2001 | |
| Giles, A. K., From “Cow College” to Life Sciences: a Chronicle in celebration of seventy-five years od UR’s Agricultural Faculty, UR, 2000 | |
| Gold, Sidney, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects at Reading. Reading: the author, 1999 | * |
| Gold, Sidney, John Rowell A Study, Ranelagh, 1965 [Reading-based stained glass artist] | * |
| Goodley, Kenneth R., Berkshire Breweries of the Nineteenth Century, 1975 | |
| Goodson, Peter, H & G Simonds Limited, Summary of Mergers and Acquisitions, 2009. | |
| Griffin, Sara, Encounters with Angels, The Life of John Pordage, Stuart Press, 1996 | |
| Griffin, Sarah, The Siege of Reading April 1643, 1996 | |
| Guilding, J. M. (ed), Records of the Borough of Reading, 1431-1654 (4 vols), London: James Parker, 1892-1896 | |
| Hadland, Tony, Thames Valley Papists, Hadland, 1992 | |
| Hall, David, Reading Trolleybuses, Middleton, 1997 | |
| Halstead, Jenny and Fulford, Michael, Silchester Life on the Dig, Two Rivers Press, 2015 | |
| Handscomb, Sue, This Was Tilehurst, 1998 | |
| Handscomb, Sue, Tilehurst, 1995 | |
| Hanly, Sister Mary Margaret, A Hundred Years A Growing: Sisters of St Marie Madeleine Postel, St Joseph’s Convent, 1994 | |
| Hardman & Barbara Morris, Philip, Sumer is icumen in, 2006 | |
| Harman, Revd. Leslie, Christianity in Reading, Crown Press, Reading, 1952 | |
| Harman, Revd. Leslie, History of St Giles-in-Reading, St Giles, Reading, 1946 | |
| Harris, Ron, The Evacuee, The Life and Times of a Young Evacuee during World War II, Spotlight, 1996 | * |
| Harte, Jeremy, Reading Lore, 2018 | |
| Hill, Harold, Images of Reading: and Surrounding Villages, Breedon Books, 1995 | |
| Hill, Harold, Reading: Our Town 1950-2002, Breedon Books, 2001 | |
| Hinton, Michael, A History of the Town of Reading, 1954 | |
| History of Reading Society, 2016 Calendar [photographs by Norman Wicks] | * |
| History of Reading Society, 2017 Calendar Old Reading Firms [images from the Central Library’s Collection] | * |
| History of Reading Society, Dearing, John (ed), The Reading Book of Days, History Press, 2013 | * |
| History of Reading Society, Newsletter, published 2 or 3 times per year [digital copies available from 2002] | * |
| History of Reading Society, Old Reading Pubs Calendar, 2020 | * |
| History of Reading Society, Riverside Reading Calendar 2018 | * |
| History of Tilehurst Group, More of the Tilehurst we Remember. Reading, 1999 | |
| History of Tilehurst Group, More Tilehurst Memories, Reading 2007 | |
| History of Tilehurst Group, The Tilehurst we Remember: Personal Reminiscences. Reading, 1997 | |
| Hobson, Wendy, Newtown Reading – The inside story, Reading, 1995 | |
| Hole, Rev. Charles, The life of the Reverend and Venerable William Whitmarsh Phelps, 1871 | |
| Horrocks, S H, Reading Town Guide, Reading Corporation, 1968 | |
| Humphreys, A.L., Caversham Bridge 1231 – 1926, 1926 | |
| Humphreys, A.L., The Streets and Street-Lore of Reading, 1926 | |
| Hunter , Judith & Rip, The Press Gang in Reading during the Seven Years’ War, BON 20, 2003 | |
| Hunter , Judith, A History of Berkshire, Phillimore, 1995 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B, Reading Abbey, 1901 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., A History of the Reading Pathological Society, 1909 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., In Honour of Hugh de Boves and Hugh Cook Faringdon, First and Last Abbots of Reading, 1911 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., King Henry Beauclerc and Reading Abbey, 1917 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., Sumer is icumen in, 1913 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster at Reading Abbey, 1914 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., The Octocentenary of Reading Abbey, 1921 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., The Rise and Fall of Reading Abbey, 1906 | |
| Hurry, Jamieson B., The Trial by Combat of Henry de Essex and Robert de Montford, 1919 | |
| Hyde, H Montgomery, Lord Reading: The Life of Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Heinemann, 1967 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, A History of Reading, Phillimore, 2007 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, A to Z of Reading Places People History, Amberley, 2017 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading 1800 to the Present Day, Amberley, 2015 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading A Pictorial History, 1994 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading at War, Sutton Publishing, 1996 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading in 50 Buildings, Amberley, 2016 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading Past and Present, Sutton Publishing, 2000 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading Places, Reading People, Berkshire Books, 1992 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading Then & Now, 2011 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, Reading Then and Now, The History Press, 2011 | |
| Hylton, Stuart, ReadinG: The Fifties, Sutton Publishing, 1997 | |
| Jacobs Bakery, 1841-1991 Reading’s past takes the biscuit, 1941 | |
| Jerrome, Keith, Labour in ‘Biscuit Town’, the growth of a social movement to 1945, 2001 (unpublished UR dissertation] | * |
| Johnson, Stewart, Reading to Barbados and Back: the Tudor family of Haynes of Reading, Book Guild, 2011. | |
| Jones, Dudley, Caversham Lawn Tennis Club, A History, the First 100 Years, 2020 (?) | |
| Keep, Tony, “I remember When” Policing in the Thames Valley – then and now, 2012 | |
| Kemp Ed., Brian, Reading Abbey Cartularies Volume 1, 1986 | |
| Kemp Ed., Brian, Reading Abbey Cartularies Volume 2, 1987 | |
| Kemp, Brian (ed), Reading Abbey Cartularies, Royal Historical Society, 1987 | |
| Kemp, Brian (ed), Reading Abbey Records, a new miscellany, Berkshire Record Society, 2018 | |
| Kerry, Rev. Charles, The Municipal Church of St Lawrence, Reading. 1883 | |
| Kidd-Hewitt, Berkshire Tales of Mystery & Murder, Countryside Books, 2004 [incl. The Reading Poltergeist and the Philip Yale Drew case.] | |
| Kift, Mary, Life in Old Caversham, 1980. [Later edition, 2004, and also from Two Rivers.] | |
| Kift, Mary, Look back at Caversham, 1983 | |
| Kingsley Organisation, , Tilehurst at the New Millennium, 2000 | |
| Kruschwitz, Peter, The Writing on the Wall, Reading’s Latin Inscriptions, Two Rivers Press, 2015 | |
| Lacey, Paul, A History of the Thames Valley Traction Company Limited, 1920-30, 1995 | |
| Lacey, Paul, A History of the Thames Valley Traction Company Limited, 1931-45, 2003 | |
| Lacey, Paul, A History of the Thames Valley Traction Company Limited, 1946-60, 2009 | |
| Lacey, Paul, Smith’s Coaches of Reading 1922 to 1979, 2018 | |
| Lacey, Paul, Thackray’s Way, A Family in Road Transport, Wokingham, 2001 | |
| Lacey, Paul, Thames Valley, The British Years, 1915-20, 1990 | |
| Langham, Colin (ed), The Berkshire Pub Guide, CAMRA, 1999 | * |
| Leach, James, A specimen of the honour, patriotism, integrity, consistency & justice of the blues of Reading, exemplified in a narrative of their conduct towards James Leach, late landlord of the Four Horseshoes, at Whitley, London, 1827 | |
| Lee, Robert (ed. Harry Leonard), Diaries and Correspondence of Robert Lee of Binfield 1736-1744, Berkshire Record Society, 2012. [Lee was a frequent visitor to Reading] | |
| Legg, W, Memorials of Broad Street Chapel, Reading, 1851 | |
| Lloyd, Frances, Woodley in the Nineteenth Century, Berkshire books, 1990 | |
| Long, Roger, Ancient Berkshire Inns and their Stories, TWM Publishing, 1996 | |
| Long, Roger, Final Commitment, An Anthology of Murder in Old Berkshire, Alan Sutton, 1994 | |
| Macey, Thomas, Jackson’s: E. Jackson & Sons Ltd, Reading, 2011 | |
| Mackarill, Diana, Early Nineteenth-century Printers in Reading, BON 25, 2008 | * |
| Mackarill, Diana, The Snares of Minster Street: the printer and the picture, Reading, 2007 | * |
| Mackay, Duncan, Reading The Place of the People of the Red One, 2016 | |
| Mahood, Harriet, Cluniac Reading and Paisley, BON 30, 2014 | |
| Man, John (ed. Adam Sowan), The Stranger in Reading, Two Rivers, 2005 [originally 1810] | * |
| Man, John, The History and Antiquities of Reading, 1815 | |
| Markham, Sarah, John Loveday of Caversham, Michael Russell, 1984 | |
| Marks, Richard, The Arrival of the Railways in the Berkshire town of Reading 1840-90, 2015 [OU dissertation self-published.] | |
| Marr, Peter, Reading Psalm and Hymn Book collections in the early 19th century. Uncertain date | |
| Mason, Paul, Memorial Tablet: Marlborough House and the First World War, Crosfields School, 2021 | |
| McCormick, Ann, Irish in nineteenth century Reading, BON 27, 2010 | |
| MERL, The Museum of English Rural Life [Guide], 1979 | |
| Miller, Ian, Patye v Griffyn – a written curse in Reading 1626?, BON 36, 2019 | |
| Mitford, Mary Russell, Belford Regis, 1835 | |
| Morley, Edith, ed. Morris, Barbara, Before and After: reminiscences of a working life, Two Rivers, 2016 | |
| Mullaney, John and Lyndsay, Catholic Reading, A Pilgrimage Trail,Scallop Shell, 2013 | |
| Mullaney, John and Lyndsay, Reformation, Revolution and Rebirth,Scallop Shell, 2012 | |
| Mullaney, John, A Tale of Two Towns: Calleva and Reading, 2020 | |
| Mullaney, John, Reading’s Abbey Quarter, Scallop Shell, 2014 | |
| Mullaney, John, The Reading Abbey Stone, Scallop Shell, 2016 | |
| Mullaney, Lyndsay, Henry I and his Abbey,Scallop Shell, 2020 | |
| n.k., South Street Labour Exchange, Two Rivers, 2011 | |
| Naxton, Michael, The History of Reading School, 1986 | |
| Newton, Bill [?], Carey Baptist Church 1867-2006, Reading, 2006 | |
| Nixon, John, The Gentlemen Danes, the Untold Story of Danish and Norwegian Prisoners on Parole in Reading, 2021 | |
| North, Leslie, Royal Reading’s Colourful Past, 1979 | |
| Oakes, J. and Parsons, M, Men such as These, DSM, 2003. [Biographies of famous old boys of Reading School, notably Roy Boulting.] | |
| Oakes, J. and Parsons, M, Old School Ties: educating for empire and war, DSM, 2001 | |
| Oakes, J. and Parsons, M, Reading School – The First 800 Years, Oakleaf Publications, 2005 | |
| Ounsley, Margaret, Coley Talking: Realities of Life in Old Reading, Two Rivers, 2021 [update of two earlier Talking of Coley books] | |
| Ounsley, Margaret, Vestrymen and Paupers: the struggle to manage the poor in St Mary’s Parish, Reading, BON 37, 2020 | |
| Over, Luke, The Parish Church of St Peter, Caversham, 2015 [original ed. 1990] | |
| Padley, Fred, A Village in the Town, Reading WEA, 1983 | |
| Park United Reformed Church, 1908-2008: 100 Years of Christian Service, 2000 | |
| Parker, David, Berkshire Churches, Francis Frith Book Co.. 2000 | |
| Partington, John S., Reading Labour 100, The Centenary of the Reading Labour Party 1918-2018, Reading TUC, 2019 | |
| Payne, Ernest, Baptists of Berkshire, Carey Kingsgate, 1951 | |
| Pearman, Morgan Thomas, Historical Notices of Caversham, Oxfordshire Archaeological Society, 1894 | |
| Petyt, M (ed), The Growth of Reading, Alan Sutton, 1993 | |
| Philips, Daphne, Inns of Reading, Reading Libraries, 1974 | |
| Philips, Daphne, Reading Old and New, Countryside Books, 1986 | |
| Philips, Daphne, Reading Past and Present, Countryside Books, 1982 | |
| Philips, Daphne, Reading Theatres, Cinemas and Other Entertainments, Reading Libraries, 1978 | |
| Philips, Daphne, Story of Reading, Countryside Books, 1980 [updated edition 2004] | |
| Phillips, Daphne, Reminiscences of Reading, by an Octogenarian, Countryside Books, 1985 | |
| Piller, Caroline, The Life and Times of Oliver Dixon, A Reading Horseman Remembered, Vikenzo Books, 2020 | * |
| Pudney, John, Draught of Contentment, New English Library, 1971 | |
| Pugh, Ronald and Margaret (ed), The Diocese Books of Samuel Wilberforce, Berkshire and Oxford Record Societies, 2008 | |
| Quelch, Lorenzo, An Old Fashioned Socialist: An Autobiography, Lorenzo Quelch Memorial Group, 1992 | |
| Railton, Margaret & Barr, Marshall, Battle Workhouse and Hospital 1867-2005, Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre, 2005. | |
| Railton, Margaret and Barr, Marshall, The Royal Berkshire Hospital 1839 – 1989, Royal Berkshire Hospital, 1989 | |
| Railton, Margaret, Early Medical Services Berkshire and South Oxfordshire from 1740, Polmood Publications, 1994 | |
| Rattle, Alison and Vale, Allison, Amelia Dyer Angel Maker: The Woman who murdered babies for money, Andre Deutsch, 2007 | |
| Read, Mike, Caversham Park and its People BC to BBC, Woodfield Publishing, 2015 | |
| Read, Sue, Reading in the News, Alan Sutton, 1998 | |
| Reading Chinese Association, From Reading to China: stories of Chinese immigrants. 2015 | |
| Reading Education Committee, Reading Technical College, Reading Education Committee, 1955 | |
| Reading Evening Post, Souvenir Edition, 2009 [last evening edition] | |
| Reading Libraries, Reading Churches [undated pamphlet] | |
| Reading TU Club, Souvenir Brochure on the opening of the new Reading Trades Union & Working Men’s Club, 1985 | |
| Red Rag Collective, Reading Between the Lines 1984-5, Reading, 1983 | |
| Redding 1540-1640. Foreword by Joan Dils. Reading, 1980 | |
| Redlands Local History Group, Old Redlands, Reading, 1990 | |
| Register of Licences Granted in the Borough of Reading, 1889. Reading: Blagrave St. Steam Printing Works, 1889 | |
| Richards, Dave, Global Reading: Reading in the world 7th-21st centuries, 2000 [obscure but looks as if RISC related] | |
| Robertson, Kevin, Steam around Reading, History Press, 2009 | |
| Rogers, Guy, A Rebel at Heart, The Autobiography of a Nonconforming Churchman, Longmans, Green, 1956 [Vicar of St John’s, Reading] | |
| Rooke, Patrick, Bulmershe, the Life of a College 1964-89, University of Reading 1992 | |
| Sampson (Ed), Catherine, Purley in Old Images, 2010 | |
| Sawers, Geoff, Broad Street Chapel and the Origins of Dissent in Reading, Two Rivers, 1996, [2nd edition 2012] | |
| Scott, Valerie & McLaughlin, Eve, County Maps & Histories: Berkshire, Quiller Press, 1984 | |
| Searing, Roger, Down Memory Lane – Reading Between the Wars, Countryside Books, 1985 | |
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