RECOMMENDED READING

 

A simple Internet search will return dozens of books on the subject of Sasquatch/Bigfoot. The quality of these publications varies widely. The list below contains books that are well-researched, competently-written, and useful to a broad audience. If there are others that you believe should be reviewed for this list please let us know.

 

The "Classics"

Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us - John Greene

Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence - Dr. Grover Krantz

Abominable Snowman: Legend Come to Life - Ivan Sanderson

Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality - John Napier

The Search for Bigfoot: Monster, Myth, or Man? - Peter Byrne

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Open-Minded Scientific Commentary

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science - Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry Into the Reality of Sasquatch - Dr. Grover Krantz

The Sasquatch and Other Unknown Hominids - Dr. Vladimir Markotic  and Dr. Grover Krantz

Bigfoot, Yeti & The Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist's Search for Modern Apemen - Dr. Bryan Sykes

Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence - Dr. Grover Krantz

 

Skeptical Scientific Commentary

Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology - Dr. Brian Regal

Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids - Daniel Loxton and Dr. Donald Prothero

Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend - David J. Daegling 

Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot by Michael McLeod 

 

General Interest 

Valley of the Apes: The Search for Sasquatch in Area X - Michael Mayes

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch - John Zada

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle

The Locals: A Contemporary Investigation of the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phenomenon - Thom Powell

The Freeman Bigfoot Files - Michael Paul Freeman

The Bigfoot Casebook: Sightings and Encounters from 1818 to 2004 - Janet Bord, Colin Bord, and Loren Coleman

Raincoast Sasquatch: Southeast Alaska, Coastal British Columbia, and Northwest Washington - J. Robert Alley

Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America - Loren Coleman

American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America - Linda Godfrey

The Bigfoot Book: An Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates - Nick Redfern

The Oregon Bigfoot Highway - Joe Beelart and Cliff Olson

Know the Sasquatch - Christopher Murphy

The Best of Sasquatch Bigfoot - John Greene

Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us - John Greene

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Field Guides

Sasquatch Field Guide (A Folding Pocket Guide) - Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Sasquatch, Yeti, and Other Wild Men of the World: A Field Guide to Relict Hominids - Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Animal Tracks: A Folding Guide to Tracks & Signs of North American Species - James Kavanaugh