 | Peppers of the World: An Identification Guide by Dave Dewitt
Buy used from: $44.93 This is one of my favorites for a true comprehensive photo list of chile peppers. Although hard core chileheads will find a few holes in it.
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 | Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums, New Edition by Jean Andrews
Buy used from: $31.95 This is one of the first real chile head publications of note beyond academic text. Still a great source of info, especially yhe revised edition.
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 | The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia: Everything You'll Ever Need To Know About Hot Peppers, With More Than 100 Recipes by Dave Dewitt
Buy new: $14.39 / Used from: $8.86 This is one of the first books that I bought for my personal collection. After checking it out the library four times, I finally broke down and shelled out the cash.
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 | Too Many Chiles!: From Sowing to Savoring : More Than 75 Recipes for Preparing and Preserving Your Pepper Harvest (Cookbooks and Restaurant Guides) by Dave Dewitt
Buy used from: $66.87 This book is a chile gardeners best friend in the autumn when you find yourself with bushels of peppers and can't figure out what else to do with them.
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 | The Habanero Cookbook by Dave Dewitt
Buy used from: $19.25 Great for those of us who love the superman of chiles, the habanero.
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 | The Spicy Food Lover's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Buying, Growing, Storing, and Using the Key Ingredients That Give Food Spice with More Than 250 Recipes from Around the World by Dave DeWitt
Buy used from: $1.52 Dave Dewitt and Nancy Garlich make a great team and while this is a good book with a smattering of everything for the beginner, it is hardly a "bible" and even chileheads will get bored quick.
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 | The Hot Sauce Collector's Guide: Everything You Need for Your Hot Sauce Collection, a Book for Collectors, Retailers, Manufacturers and Lovers of All Things Hot by Jennifer T. Thompson
Buy used from: $68.09 This is a goo listing of lots and lots of sauce companies for those already into collecting, but it doesn't talk enough about how to collect and not a lot of tips for getting started.
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 | Hot Licks by Jennifer T. Thompson
Buy used from: $0.43 this is my favorite book for hot sauce recipes. I love it! Although I have yet to master the Lime/Salt sauce recipe...
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 | The Whole Chile Pepper Book by Dave Dewitt
Buy used from: $1.00 this is perhaps the best Dave/Nancy combo book. I you are looking to buy that first "anchor" book for your collection, start here. Food, gardening, history. It has it all.
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 | A Field Guide to Hot Sauces: A Chilihead's Tour of More Than 100 Blazing Brews by Todd Kaderabek
Buy used from: $0.01 Have not read this one, but it looks intriquing...
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 | The Hot Sauce Bottle Cookbook ; Recipes that Sizzle - Sauces that Cook! by Linda Matthie-Jacobs
Buy used from: $175.88 Worth it for the "Papaya Pumpkin Habanero" sauce recipe...mmmmmmm....
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 | Peppers: Vegetable and Spice Capsicums (Crop Production Science in Horticulture) by P. Bosland
Buy new: $59.00 / Used from: $58.98 A good "go between" book from chile eater to scientist.
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 | Capsicum: The genus Capsicum (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles, 34)
Buy new: $129.95 / Used from: $140.35 Another moderately scientific Capsicum text that is not too deep in organic chemistry or genetics that most relatively intelligent non-scientists can benefit.
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 | Flora of the Galapagos Islands by Ira Wiggins
Buy new: $150.00 / Used from: $103.68 This is the only book that has any information on the rare Galapagos Islands Chile. It is expensive, but it is also tough to find at the library and usually takes a loan from a university.
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