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Popular books and articles
- Davies, Paul; Julian R. Brown (Eds.) (July 31 1992). Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (Reprint edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 244. ISBN 0-521-43775-X.
- Gefter, Amanda (December 2005). "Is string theory in trouble?". New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18825305.800-is-string-theory-in-trouble.html?full=true. – An interview with Leonard Susskind,
the theoretical physicist who discovered that string theory is based on
one-dimensional objects and now is promoting the idea of multiple universes.
- Green, Michael (September 1986). "Superstrings". Scientific American. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mbg15/superstrings/superstrings.html.
- Greene, Brian (October 20 2003). The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Reissue edition ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 464. ISBN 0-393-05858-1.
- Greene, Brian (2004). The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 569. ISBN 0-375-41288-3.
- Gribbin, John (1998). The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything. London: Little Brown and Company. pp. 224. ISBN 0-316-32975-4.
- Halpern, Paul (2004). The Great Beyond: Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes, and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. pp. 326. ISBN 0-471-46595-X.
- Hooper, Dan (2006). Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 240. ISBN 978-0-06-113032-8.
- Kaku, Michio (April 1994). Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 384. ISBN 0-19-508514-0.
- Musser, George (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory. Indianapolis: Alpha. pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-59-257702-6.
- Penrose, Roger (February 22 2005). The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe. Knopf. pp. 1136. ISBN 0-679-45443-8.
- Randall, Lisa (September 1 2005). Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. New York: Ecco Press. pp. 512. ISBN 0-06-053108-8.
- Smolin, Lee (2006). The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. pp. 392. ISBN 0-618-55105-0.
- Susskind, Leonard (December 2006). The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. New York: Hachette Book Group/Back Bay Books. pp. 403. ISBN 0-316-01333-1.
- Taubes, Gary (November 1986). "Everything's Now Tied to Strings" Discover Magazine vol 7, #11. (Popular article, probably the first ever written, on the first superstring revolution.)
- Vilenkin, Alex (2006). Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes. New York: Hill and Wang. pp. 235. ISBN 0-8090-9523-8.
- Witten, Edward (June 2002). "The Universe on a String". Astronomy Magazine. http://www.sns.ias.edu/~witten/papers/string.pdf. – An easy article for everybody outside physics wanting to understand the very basics of the theory.
- Woit, Peter (2006). Not Even Wrong - The Failure of String Theory And the Search for Unity in Physical Law. London: Jonathan Cape &: New York: Basic Books. pp. 290. ISBN 0-224-07605-1 & ISBN 978-0-465-09275-8.
Textbooks
- Binétruy, Pierre (2007). Supersymmetry: Theory, Experiment, and Cosmology, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850954-7.
- Dine, Michael (2007). Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-85841-0.
- Paul H. Frampton (1974). Dual Resonance Models. Frontiers in Physics. ISBN 0-805-32581-6.
- Gasperini, Maurizio (2007). Elements of String Cosmology, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86875-4.
- Michael Green, John H. Schwarz and Edward Witten (1987). Superstring theory, Cambridge University Press. The original textbook.
- Kiritsis, Elias (2007). String Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12230-4.
- Polchinski, Joseph (1998). String Theory, Cambridge University Press. A modern textbook.
- Johnson, Clifford (2003). D-branes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80912-6.
- Zwiebach, Barton (2004). A First Course in String Theory, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-83143-1. Errata are available
- Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker and John H. Schwarz (2007). String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction , Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-86069-5
- Leonard Susskind, (2006). The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory And The Illusion Of Intelligent Design, Little, Brown & Company ISBN 0-316-15579-9
- Szabo, Richard J. (Reprinted 2007). An Introduction to String Theory and D-brane Dynamics, Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1-86094-427-7.
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