 | Firefly - The Complete Series
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $21.15 Gotta start off with your primary text. I can complain all day about how short the series was, but it helps in writing a thesis on series and film to have a limited number of episodes.
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 | Serenity (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $11.98 Keep on trucking with those primary texts. This movie was an awesome cap to a righteous series.
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 | Serenity: Those Left Behind (HC) by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.83 More storylines, need it if you want to be thorough in your research.
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 | Serenity, Vol. 2: Better Days by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $9.94 Ditto from "Those Left Behind."
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 | MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 by Mike Mignola
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.08 There's a "Firefly" comic in here. Not Whedon's, but it has our lovely crew fighting off some Reavers.
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 | Firefly: The Official Companion: Volume One by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.88 Must have! Need it for your research when you truly want to apply cultural studies or new historicism to your analysis.
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 | Firefly: The Official Companion: Volume Two by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.12 Must have also! Need it for your research when you truly want to apply cultural studies or new historicism to your analysis.
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 | Serenity Official Visual Companion by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.40 Finally, must have as well! Need it for your research when you truly want to apply cultural studies or new historicism to your analysis.
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 | Firefly: Still Flying: A Celebration of Joss Whedon's Acclaimed TV Series by Joss Whedon
Buy new: $13.46 Just waiting till March!
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 | Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier (Investigating Cult TV)
Buy new: $17.55 / Used from: $19.98 Finally to the analysis. This is probably the best academic treatment of "Firefly" and "Serenity" that I have come across in print.
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 | Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon by K. Dale Koontz
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $44.48 Very well done and extremely insightful. Please realize this is not only our babies, but "Buffy," "Angel," and "Fray" as well.
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 | Existential Joss Whedon: Evil And Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly And Serenity by J. Michael Richardson
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $31.48 Arguing for existentialism in Whedon, shouldn't be too hard. Again, more than just the Verse.
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 | Sith, Slayers, Stargates, + Cyborgs: Modern Mythology in the New Millennium by John Perlich
Buy new: $74.95 / Used from: $76.54 Storytelling and myth in "Firefly" and "Serenity."
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 | New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $25.00 Includes a treatment on the "The Legacy of 'Firefly'."
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 | Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly (Smart Pop series)
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $5.59 Edited by a Whedon screenwriter. Some good essays, some bad. Please note that this is "unauthorized" and for good reason.
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 | Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe (Smart Pop series)
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $11.55 More "unauthorized" essays!
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 | The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly (Psychology of Popular Culture series) by Joy Davidson PhD
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $7.89 "Unauthorized" but decent.
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 | Done The Impossible: The Fans' Tale of Firefly & Serenity
Buy used from: $11.97 Fandom so rocks!!!
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 | Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Buy new: $199.96 / Used from: $157.33 Encyclopedia-esque book with entries for "Firefly/Serenity," "Joss Whedon," and "Space Opera." All entries are focused on the women that inhabit the texts.
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 | Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
Buy new: $36.52 / Used from: $23.09 Chapter 11: "Remapping the Feminine in Joss Whedon's 'Firefly'"
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 | One Power in the 'Verse: Finding God in Firefly and Serenity by Paul Lytle
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $39.38 Haven't read it because it really doesn't apply to my thesis but I'm sure it's got some insight for someone.
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 | The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.95 This was one of Whedon's inspirations for "Firefly."
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 | Firefly Episode Guide: An Unofficial, Independent Guide to Joss Whedon's Firefly by Mimi Noyes
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $10.00 Not the best. Get the official companions instead.
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 | Serenity - The Future is Worth Fighting For (Pocket Star Books Media Tie-In) by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Buy used from: $1.38 Get it used ... only a penny. Unfortunately not the best.
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