A Bibliography of Carp

I've always had a liking for books dedicated to a single species and so I've decided to put together lists for all the single species books I can think of. I don't claim this list to be complete and I have deliberately only included books that are entirely or nearly entirely about the species in question. This is an ongoing project and the list will be updated from time to time as I come across more relevant books. Feel free to contact me either to suggest books to include or to correct my mistakes. Now, let's start with the big one - Carp!

• Arbery (Len) – Carp for Life 2010
• Bailey (John) – Carp Challenge 1994
• Bailey (John) – Carp: Perfect Days 2009
• Bailey (John) – Carp: The Quest for the Queen 1986
• Ball (Chris) – A Century of Carp Fishing 2000 
• Ball (Chris) - Best of the Famous Catches: Iconic Carp Captures of the UK 2012
  
• Ball (Chris) – The King Carp Waters 1993
• Barr (William) - The Carp Club (Or the election that never was) 2010
• Batten (David) – An Introduction to Carp Fishing 1989
• BCSG – Carp Carp Carp: The First Annual of the British Carp Study Group 1973
• BCSG – The Second British Carp Study Group Book 1975
• BCSG – The Third British Carp Study Group Book 1980
• BCSG – The Fourth British Carp Study Group Book 1983
• BCSG – The Fifth British Carp Study Group Book 1991
• BCSG – The Sixth British Carp Study Group Book 2009
• BCSG - The Seventh British Carp Study Group Book 2013
• Berry (Jon) - Great Carp Stories 2012
• Bojko (Zenon) – Zenon Bojko’s Carp Rig Book 1993
• Briggs (Steve) - Big Carp Legends 2011
• Briggs (Steve) – Cassien.... and Beyond 2009
• Briggs (Steve) - Carping Horizons 2013
• Chillcott (Ian) – Light my Fire 2008
• Chillcott (Ian) – Tackling Carp 2007
• Church (Bob). Editor – Big Carp 2007
• Claridge (John) - Beauties and the Beasts 2012
• Clarke (Martin) – Strictly Carp 2001
• Clarke (Martin) - Head Down Tails Up 2013
• Clifford (Kevin) – A History of Carp Fishing 1992
• Clifford (Kevin) – Master Fisherman: Carp 1989
• Clifford (Kevin) & Arbery (Len) – Redmire Pool 1984
• Clifford (Kevin) & Cundiff (Julian) – Carpworld Yearbook Number 1 1991
• Cook (Paul) - Lost in a Quiet World 2011
• Cooper (Edwin L.) - Carp in North America 1987
• Cottam (Bill) – Behind the Rods 2009
• Cottam (Bill) & Paisley (Tim) – Carp Baits (Carp in Depth series) 1991
• Coulson (Marc P.) & Bones (Jonathan) - Let's Go Carp Fishing 2006
• Crow (Simon) – Carp Fishing: Advanced Tactics 2006
• Crow (Simon). Compiler – Holiday Carp Waters 2000
• Crow (Simon) & Hughes (Rob) – Discover Carp Fishing 2002
• Cundiff (Julian) – Carp: Short Session Success 2010
• Cundiff (Julian) – Carp Waters (Carp in Depth series) 1991
• Cundiff (Julian) – Practical Carp Fishing 1993
• Cundiff (Julian) – Successful Carp Fishing 1995
• Cundiff (Julian) – The Beekay Guide to Starting Carp Fishing 1995
• Cunnington (Mark) – The Syndicate 1999
• Cunnington (Mark) – The Syndicate (R.I.P.) Part II 2000
• Cunnington (Mark) – Return of The Syndicate Part III 2002
• Cunnington (Mark) – Running The Syndicate Part IV
• Cunnington (Mark) – Revenge of The Syndicate Part V
• Cunnington (Mark) – The Ransome and The Syndicate Part VI
• Cunnington (Mark) - The Syndicates Part VII
• Currie (Chris). Compiler. - Finding the Time to Cast 2013
• Davies-Patrick (Tony) & Hoogendijk (Leon) – Big Fish in Foreign Waters 1991
• Davies-Patrick (Tony) – Globetrotter’s Quest 2004
• Deeter (Kirk) - The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing for Carp: Tips and Tricks for the Determined Angler 2013
• Dempsey (Terry) - The Urban Myth 2012
• Digance (Richard) – Backwater 1982
• Ensom (Edward) "Faddist" - Carp and the Carp Catchers Club 2006
• Escott (Phil) - An Illusion of Maya 2012
• Fairbrass (Danny). Editor – Korda Developments: Advanced Rig Book 1996
• Fairbrass (Danny.) Editor – Korda Developments: Carp Leads
• Fairbrass (Danny). Editor - Telling Tales: 2010 A Year in Carp Fishing 2010
• Fairbrass (Danny). Editor - Telling Tales: 2011 A Year in Carp Fishing 2011
  
• Fairbrass (Danny). Editor – The Complete Guide to Holiday Carp Fishing
• Fareham (Gareth). Editor – The Forgotten Chapters 2009
• Fareham (Gareth). Editor - Subsurface 2013
• Fox International – The Complete Guide to Carp Fishing 2008
• Fox International – The Fox Guide to Carp Rigs 2004
• Fox International – The Fox Guide to Commercial Fisheries 2006
• Fox International – The Fox Guide to Modern Carp Fishing 2005
• Gibbinson (Jim) – Big Water Carp 1989
• Gibbinson (Jim) – Carp (Osprey Anglers Series) 1974
• Gibbinson (Jim) – Carp (Richard Walker Angling Library) 1968
• Gibbinson (Jim) – Carp Sense 1992
• Gibbinson (Jim) – Gravel Pit Carp 1999
• Gray (Micky) – A Merry Olde Dance
• Hamidi (Ali) – Ali Hamidi’s Carp Fishing Masterclass
• Hammond (Jerry) - Catching Memories 2011
• Harris (Stuart) - From Carbon to Cane: An Angler's Quest for Solitude 2013
• Harry (John) – Savay 1992
• Harry (John) - Big Carp Legends 2013
• Haskell (Harry) - Reeling in the Years 2013
• Haswell (Chris) - Happy Days 2012
• Hatton (Cliff) – All Beer and Boilies 2007
• Hearn (Terry) – In Pursuit of the Largest 1999
• Hearn (Terry) – Still Searching 2006
• Helleur (Nick) - Big Carp Hunters 2014
• Hilton (Jack) – Catch More Carp 1974
• Hilton (Jack) – Quest for Carp 1972
• Hilton (Jack) – Quest for the Best 2005
• Holgate (James). Editor – Carp: A Handbook of Techniques 2009
• Hughes (Rob) & Crow (Simon) – Strategic Carp Fishing 1997
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Carp Along the Way: Volume One 2008
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Carp Along the Way: Volume Two 2009
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Carp Inspirations 2011
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Carp Now and Then 1988
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Rod Hutchinson’s Carp Book: Tales and Tactics 1981
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Rod Hutchinson’s Guide to Carp Baits 1989
• Hutchinson (Rod) – Rod’s Recipe Book
• Hutchinson (Rod) – The Carp Strikes Back 1983
• Ingham (Maurice) - Woldale 1996
  
• Ingham (Maurice) & Rogers (Peter) – The Carp Catchers Club 1998
• Jackson (Lee) – Big Carp Legends 2010
• Jackson (Lee) – Lee Jackson’s Carp Clinic 2001
• Jackson (Lee) – Just for the Record: The Quest for Two-Tone 2009
• Jenkins (Keith) – The Keeper 2009
• Jenkins (Keith) – The Myth 1999
• Jenkins (Keith). Editor - The Horton Chronicles 2011
• Jenkins (Keith). Editor - The Wraysbury Chronicles 2012
• Jenkins (Keith). Editor - The Savay Chronicles 2013
• Jones (Dave) - Romancing the Carp 2013
• Kemp (Geoff) – Kempastini’s Book of Baits
• Kent (Graham). Compiler – All Ways Carping 2010
• Lane (Dave) – A Flick of the Tale 2008
• Lane (Dave) – An Obsession with Carp 1998
• Lane (Dave) - Big Carp Legends 2011
• Langhenkel (Dick) & de Boer (Nico) – 200 Fishing Tips: Carp 1980
• Langridge (John) – Aphrodite’s Carp 2006
• Lawrence (Martin) - Bivvy Tramps: A Fenland Carp Tale 2011
• Lawrence (Martin) - Bivvy Tramps II: The Ultimate Rig 2013
• Little (Andy) – Angler's Mail Guide to Big Carp Fishing 1988
• Little (Andy) – Go Carping 1994
• Little (Andy) – My Passion for Carp 1992
• Little (Andy) – The Complete Carp Angler 1992
• Lofting (Ben). Compiler – Essex Carp Hunters 2010
• Luftglass (Manny) – Gone Fishin’… for Carp 1996
• Lyons (Craig) - Carp Addiction 2013
• Lyons (Craig). Compiler & Starkey (Mike). Editor - It's a Long Old Road: A tribute to Steve Edwards from his family and friends 2012 
• Maddocks (Kevin) – Carp Fever 1981
• Maddocks (Kevin) – In Pursuit of Carp and Catfish 1986
• Maddocks (Kevin) & Cundiff (Julian) – The Beekay Guide to Carp Rigs 1996
• Maddocks (Kevin) & Mohan (Peter) – The Beekay Guide to Carp Waters 1986
• Maddocks (Kevin) & Mohan (Peter) – The Beekay Guide to 450 Carp Waters 1988
• Maddocks (Kevin) & Mohan (Peter) – The Beekay Guide to 1000 Carp Waters 1992
• Maddocks (Kevin) & Mohan (Peter) – The Beekay Guide to 2000 British & European Carp Waters
• Mallin (Dave) - Big Carp Hunters 2013
• Marsden (Graham) & Wintle (Mark) – Practical Carp Fishing 2009
• Martin (Paul) - Top 100 Day Ticket Carp Waters: East Anglia 2013?
• Maylin (Rob) – Bazil’s Bush 1993
• Maylin (Rob) - Big Carp Legends 2012
• Maylin (Rob) – Carp (Successful Angling Series) 1990
• Maylin (Rob) – Fox Pool: The Adventures of the Famous Five 1989
• Maylin (Rob) – One Last Cast: The Diary of a Carpfisher 2009
• Maylin (Rob) – Tiger Bay: In Search of Colne Valley Carp 1988
• Maylin (Rob). Compiler - Advanced Terminal Rigs 2013
• Maylin (Rob). Editior - The Big Carp Rotary Letter: Volume One 2013
• Maylin (Rob) & Cooper (Alan) - A History of Yateley 2012
• Maylin (Rob) & Cooper (Alan) - A History of Yateley 2013
• McDonald (Ritchie) - Big Carp Legends 2011
  
• McDonald (Ritchie) – Ritchie on Carp 1989
• Miles (Tony) – Carp Fishing: Expert Advice for Beginners 1991
• Miles (Tony) – The Carp Years 1996
• Mohan (Peter) - All About Carp Fishing 1970
• Mohan (Peter) – Basic Carp Fishing 1982
• Mohan (Peter) – Carp For Everyone 1972
• Mohan (Peter) – Carp Stories & Other Tales 2010
• Mohan (Peter) – Cypry: The Story of a Carp 1973
• Mohan (Peter) – Fishing Step by Step: Carp 1976
• Mohan (Peter) - A Life for Carp 2013
• Mohan (Peter) & Maddocks (Kevin) – The Carp Catcher Book 1984
• Morris (Bob) - Carping Aside: Don't Write Me Off 2013
• Murray (Andy) – Catch Carp 2000
• Murray (Andy). Editor – The Carp Angler’s Handbook 2000
• Nash (Kevin) – Rig Book 1987
• Nash (Kevin) – Carp & Catfish Advanced Rig Book 1988
• Nash (Kevin) - Memoirs of a Carp Fisher: The Demon Eye 2012
• Nixon (John) & Gillespie (Ian) – The Art of Carp and Tench Fishing 1965
• Norroy – The Strange Adventures of a Carp 1884
• Nutrabaits – The Little Black Book
• O’Reilly (Tom) – Carp Pitch 2006
• Paisley (Tim) – Big Carp 1990
• Paisley (Tim) – Carp! 2002
• Paisley (Tim) – Carp Amid the Storm 1992
• Paisley (Tim) – Carp Fishing 1988
• Paisley (Tim) – Carp Season 1988
• Paisley (Tim) – From The Bivvy 1994
• Paisley (Tim) – Memories of Carp 2004
• Paisley (Tim) - More From the Bivvy 2012
• Paisley (Tim) – To Catch a Carp 1997
• Paisley (Tim). Compiler – For the Love of Carp 1989
• Paisley (Tim). Editor – Overseas Carp Holiday Directory 2003
• Paisley (Tim) & Ford (Martin) – The Ultimate Carp Rig Book 2006
• Paisley (Tim), Briggs (Steve) & Duncan-Dunlop (Thomas) - Monster Carp 2014
• Paisley (Tim, and others) – Carp Baits Uncovered 2003
• Paisley (Tim, and others) - Carp Rigs Uncovered 2003
• Peck (Darrell) - My Misspent Youth 2011 
• Pritchard (Trevor) - Casting for 'Cloopers': A collection of fishing trials and tribulations 2013
• Pullen (Graeme) – Go Fishing for Carp 1990
• Redfern (Mike) – Carping Mad 2009
• Reynolds (Barry, and others) – Carp on the Fly: A Flyfishing Guide 1997
• Rider (Jason) – Carping Journeys 2009
• Rider (Jason) – Drive and Survive: Overseas Carp Adventures 2008
• Rider (Jason) & Friends - The Only Way is Carp 2012
• Romp (Albert) – A Romp with Carp 1992
• Romp (Albert) – Another Romp with Carp 2008
• Romp (Albert) - Big Carp Legends 2012
• Rudd (Colin R.) – How to Catch Carp the Easy Way 2007
• Selman (Paul). Editor – Carp Hunters 1994
• Selman (Paul) – Carp Reflections 1997
• Selman (Paul). Editor – Carp Tales 1998
• Selman (Paul). Editor – Carp Tales 2: A Collection of Humorous Stories 2001
• Sharman (George) – Carp and the Carp Angler 1980
• Sharp (Nigel) – Living the Dream 2010
• Shelley (Jim) – Carping Uncut 2004
• Shelley (Jim) - Carping ReCut 2013
• Skoyles (Brian) & Ball (Chris) – Floater Fishing (Carp in Depth series) 1991
• Smith (Alan) – Carp Revolution
• Springate (Pete) – Big Carp Legends 2010
• Springate (Pete) - Carp Side of the Moon 2012
• Springate (Pete) - New Moon Rising 2014
• Starkey (Mike) – A Dream of Carp 2004
• Starkey (Mike) – A Dream of Carp: Book Two
  
• Stayner (Steve) - The Edge: Tactical Revelations for Barbel and Carp Anglers 2006
  
• Steuart (David Lincoln) – Carp: How to Catch Them 1955
• Stritton (Derek) - Too Many Rods: An Old School Story 2011
• Stritton (Derek) – Winter Carping (Carp in Depth Series) 1991
• Symak (Elliott) – Mywater: The Carp Fishing Years 1989
• Symonds (Norman) & Wilson (John) - One Man's Passion for Carp 2013
• Thompson (Phil) – Waiting for Waddle 1995
• Tomkins (Alan) - Magic in the Water: Colne Mere and Other Places 2011
• Tomkins (Alan) – Rigs & End Tackle (Carp in Depth series) 1991
• Townley (Ken) – Tackle & Tactics (Carp in Depth Series) 1991
• Townley (Ken) – The Beekay Guide to Carp Baits 1999
• Various/Unknown – 500 Open Access Carp Waters 2011
• Various/Unknown – A Carper’s Dozen 2004
• Various/Unknown – Carp in Focus: A Photographic Compilation 1990
• Various/Unknown - Carpworld's The Big Interviews Revisited 2012
• Various/Unknown – Four Seasons of Carp 2008
• Various/Unknown – Four Seasons of Carp: Part Two
• Walker (Richard) – Carp Fishing 1960
• Walker (Richard) – Still-Water Angling 1953
• Walsingham (Mark) - A Fool and his Eel 2012
• Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J. “BB”) – A Carp Water (Wood Pool) and How to Fish It 1958
• Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J. “BB”) – Confessions of a Carp Fisher 1950
• Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J. “BB”) – The Challenge of Big Carp 2007
• Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J. “BB”) – The Whopper 1967
• Wayte (Neil) – River Carping 2000
• Whieldon (Tony) – Fishing Skills: Carp Fishing 1986
• Whiting (William) - Sweet Obsessions: Carp and Willowdown
• Willett (Richard) – Let’s Start Stillwater Carp Fishing 1990
• Williams (Clive) - Sussex Carping: An In-depth Guide to Carp Waters in Sussex 2011   
• Willmott (Mike) – Carp Life 2002
  
• Wilson (John) – Catch Carp (Angling Times Library) 1991
• Wilson (John) - John Wilson's Essential Guide to Carp Fishing
• Wilson (Mike) - Big Carp Legends 2012  
• Wood (Jon) – Carp Fishing Science 2010
• Wood (Jon) - Carp: Location, Feeding & Bait 2012
• Wright (Joe). Editor - The Ultimate Rig Guide 2012
• Yates (Chris) – Casting At The Sun 1986
• Yates (Chris) – Four Seasons 1996
• Yates (Chris) – Shadows and Reflections 1999
• Yates (Chris) - The Secret Carp 1992

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