Here are some lists of important woodworking books compiled by John Kelsey at our request. All titles were in print when this page was created, but we can’t guarantee they still are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These lists are not intended to be exhaustive or necessarily complete, but there are no clunkers in here either. We will add other worthy titles as they occur to us, including a reading list of works by WoodCentral regulars. Meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to recommend your own favorites in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nicely produced, mind-expanding and influential, these books are generally acknowledged to be among the all-time best woodworking books. Links go to Amazon searches for the books. Prices listed are the suggested retail price at the time of publication. Amazon prices may be more or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They may not qualify as the all-around best woodworking books, but here are some titles that rank at or near the top of many woodworkers’ “must have” list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are the titles that furniture-making woodworkers ought to own. We’ve left out books on period styles and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some lists of important woodworking books compiled by John Kelsey at our request. All titles were in print when this page was created, but we can’t guarantee they still are. These lists are not intended to be exhaustive or necessarily complete, but there are no clunkers in here either. We will add other … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,211],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}