Books About James Joyce

Anderson, Chester G. James Joyce and his world. Thames, 1967.
Beja, Morris. James Joyce: a literary life. Macmillan, 1992; Ohio State UP, 1992.
Beja, Morris && Ehrlich, Heyward. Light rays: James Joyce and modernism. New Horizon, 1984.
Berrone, Louis: ed. James Joyce in Padua. Random, 1977.
Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: a new biography. Farrar, 2011.
Bradley, Bruce S. James Joyce's schooldays. Gill, 1982.
Cato, Bob: comp.. Joyce images. Norton, 1994.
Colum, Mary && Colum, Padraic. Our friend James Joyce. Doubleday, 1958.
Costello, Peter. James Joyce. Gill, 1980.
Costello, Peter. James Joyce: the years of growth 1882-1915. Pantheon, 1992.
Crivelli, Renzo S. James Joyce: Triestine itineraries. McCourt, John: trans. MGS, 1996.
Culleton, Claire. Joyce and the G-men: J. Edgar Hoover's manipulation of modernism. MacMillan, 2004.
Curran, Constantine. James Joyce remembered. Solterer, Helen && Ryan, Alice: eds. Oxford UP, 1968; Reprint, U College Dublin P, 2022.
Contributors:
Kelleher, Margaret: "Town and generation: the Currans and the Colums"
Campbell, Hugh: "C. P. Curran’s photographs of Joyce and Dublin: 'An untrustworthy composite doubly and trebly overlaid'"
Ferriter, Diarmid: "'the right to speak on behalf of Ireland': Conn Curran and the nation, 1917–22"
Solterer, Helen: "C. P. Curran in a personal vein: ghost photographer, correspondent, collector"
Fogarty, Helen: "A Joycean coda: modernism, memory, and the biographical impulse"
Roche, Eugene && Flanagan, Evelyn: "Annex: the Constantine Curran and Helen Laird Collection at University College Dublin’s James Joyce Library"
Edel, Leon. James Joyce: the last journey. Gotham Book Mart, 1947.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford UP, 1959; Oxford UP, 1966; rev. edn., Oxford UP, 1982. The standard Joyce biography; arguably the best literary biography ever. Comprehensive, authoritative, exhaustive, obsessive.
Ellmann, Richard. Joyce in love. Cornell U, 1959.
Faerber, Thomas && Luchsinger, Markus. Joyce in Zurich. Unionsverlag, 1988.
Fargnoli, A. Nicholas && Gillespie, Michael Patrick. Critical companion to James Joyce: a literary reference to his life and work. Checkmark-Infobase, 2006.
Fargnoli, A. Nicholas && Gillespie, Michael Patrick. James Joyce A to Z: the essential reference to the life and works. Oxford UP, 1995.
Fennell, Conor. A little circle of kindred minds: Joyce in Paris. Green Lamp, 2011.
Ferris, Kathleen. James Joyce and the burden of disease. U of Kentucky P, 1995.
Freund, Gisele. Three days with Joyce. Persea, 1985.
Freund, Gisele && Carleton, V.P. James Joyce in Paris: the final years. Harcourt, 1965.
Gebler Davies, Stan. James Joyce: a portrait of the artist. Davis, 1975.
Giedion-Welcker, Carola: ed. In memoriam James Joyce. Fretz, 1941.
Gilbert, Stuart. Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert's Paris journal. Staley, Thomas F. && Lewis, Randolph: eds. U of Texas P, 1993.
Gillet, Louis. Claybook for James Joyce. Markow-Totevy, Georges: trans. Abelard, 1958.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce: his first forty years. Huebsch, 1925.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce: his first forty years. Bles, 1926.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce. Farrar, 1939.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce: a definitive biography. Lane, 1941.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce. Rev. edn. Rinehart, 1948.
Gorman, Herbert Sherman. James Joyce: a definitive biography. Lane, 1949.
Hartshorn, Peter. James Joyce and Trieste. Greenwood, 1997.
Hutchins, Patricia. James Joyce's Dublin. Grey Walls, 1950.
Hutchins, Patricia. James Joyce's world. Methuen, 1957; Routledge, 2016.
Igoe, Vivien. James Joyce's Dublin houses: & Nora Barnacle's Galway. Lilliput, 2007; Lilliput, 2012, ebook.
Joyce, Stanislaus. The complete Dublin diary. Healey, George: ed. Cornell UP, 1971.
Joyce, Stanislaus. My brother's keeper: James Joyce's early years. Viking, 1958; Da Capo, 2003.
Joyce, Stanislaus. Recollections of James Joyce by his brother. Mason, Ellsworth: trans. James Joyce Society, 1950.
Leon, Alexis && Leon, Anna Maria && Crispi, Luca: eds. James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: the story of a friendship revisited. Bloomsbury, 2022.

Contributors:
Crispi, Luca: "Contexts"
Noel, Lucie: "James Joyce and Paul L. Leon: the story of a friendship"
Crispi, Luca: "The story of the publication of The Story of a Friendship"
Leon, Paul L.: "On James Joyce"
Gallagher, Mary: "Paul Leon's 'Letters from Hell'"
Leon, Alexis: "'Living memories of James Joyce: Fifty Years On': a lecture at the James Joyce Society"
Lyons, John B. James Joyce & medicine. Dolmen, 1973.
MacDiarmid, Hugh. In memoriam James Joyce. MacLellan, 1955.
Magalaner, Marvin && Kain, Richard M. Joyce: the man, the work, the reputation. New York UP, 1956.
McCourt, John. The years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920. U of Wisconsin P, 2000.
McGinley, Bernard. Joyce's lives: uses and abuses of the biografiend. U of North London P, 1996.
Mikhail, E. H.: ed. James Joyce: interviews and recollections. Macmillan, 1990; St. Martin's, 1990.

Contributors:
Delaney, Frank: "Foreword"
Monaghan, May Joyce: "A sister recalls Joyce in Dublin"
Byrne, John Francis: "James Joyce at Belvedere College"
Aylmer, Francis: "Reuben didn't admire James Joyce"
Byrne, John Francis: ""The white bishop'"
Byrne, John Francis: "'Diseases of the Ox'"
Sheehy, John, Judge: "My school friend, James Joyce"
Russell, George: "'An Extremely Clever Boy'"
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler): "'The Younger Generation is Knocking at My Door'"
Gregory, Lady: "'Joyce has Grit'"
Joyce, Stanislaus: "'Jim's Character is Unsettled'"
Gogarty, Oliver St. John: "James Joyce: a portrait of the artist"
Colum, Padraic: "James Joyce as a young man"
Beaslai, Piaras: "Joyce among the journalists"
Hone, Joseph: "A Recollection of James Joyce"
Svevo, Italo: "James Joyce in Trieste"
Savio, Antonio Fonda && Savio, Letiaia Fonda: "James Joyce: Two Reminiscences"
Bruni, Alessandro Francini: "Recollections of Joyce"
Nordio, Mario: "My first English teacher"
Poliaghi, Nora Franca: "James Joyce: an occasion of remembrance"
Schaurek, Eileen Joyce: "Pappy never spoke of Jim's books"
Budgen, Frank: "Recollections of James Joyce"
Beach, Sylvia: "How I published Ulysses"
Power, Arthur: "The Joyce I knew"
Lewis, Wyndham: "First meeting with James Joyce"
Wadsworth, P. Beaumont: "Visits with James Joyce"
Cody, Morrill: "James Joyce in the Twenties"
Beach, Sylvia: "Joyce's way of life"
Bulcher, Fanny: "Afternoon with James Joyce"
Hamnett, Nina: "I met James Joyce"
Huddleston, Sisley: "Joyce's birthday parties"
Wescott, Glenway: "At Lloyd Morris's party"
Hemingway, Earnest: "A drink with Joyce"
McAlmon, Robert: "With James Joyce"
Stephens, James: "The James Joyce I knew"
Reid, Robert: "I meet, in time and space, James Joyce"
Crosby, Caresse: "At a party with James Joyce"
Huxley, Aldous: "James Joyce in Paris"
Aldington, Richard: "We established no intimacy"
Antheil, George: "James Joyce"
Paul, Elliot: "A study of James Joyce"
Cunard, Nancy: "Visits from James Joyce"
Harmsworth, Desmond: "James Joyce: a sketch"
Anderson, Margaret: "James Joyce in Paris"
Porter, Katherine Anne: "I saw Joyce only once"
Jolas, Eugene: "Homage to James Joyce"
Soupault, Philippe: "Homage to James Joyce"
McGreevy, Thomas: "Homage to James Joyce"
Bliss, Arthur: "An encounter with Joyce"
Myers, Rollo H.: Joyce's fiftieth birthday"
Thomson, Virgil: "Joyce"
Nicolson, Harold: "James Joyce in Paris"
Griffin, Gerald: "James Joyce"
Stern, James: "James Joyce: a first impression"
Joyce, Giorgio: "The Joyces"
Reddin, Kenneth: "Worth half-a-dozen legations"
Colum, Mary: "James Joyce in Paris"
Lynd, Sylvia: "Some recollections of James Joyce: in London"
Gillet, Louis: "The living Joyce"
Curran, C. P.: "James Joyce as man and artist"
"Sisters of James Joyce Mourn for Two Brothers"
Power, Arthur: "Memoir of the man"
Gasser, Hans: "Joyce's burial"
Van Hoek, Kees: "I met James Joyce's wife"
Lennon, Peter: "James Joyce's 'nurse' remembers"
Monaghan, May Joyce: "Sister"
Joyce, Stephen: Ecce Puer"
National Library of Ireland. A Joycean scrapbook. McSharry, Katherine: comp. Wordwell, 2004.
Nicolls, Martina. The Paris residences of James Joyce. Cambridge Scholars, 2020.
Noel, Lucie. James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: the story of a friendship. Gotham, 1950.
Norris, David && Flint, Carl. Introducing Joyce. Appignanesi, Richard: ed. Totem, 1997. Despite its comic book presentation this is quite learned and well worth reading.
O'Brien, Edna. James Joyce. Viking, 1999.
O'Connor, Ulick: ed. The Joyce we knew. Mercier, 1967; O'Brien, 2016.

Contributors:
Sheehy, Eugen
Fallon, William G.
Colum, Padraic
Power, Arthur
Lester, Sean
Pearl, Cyril. Dublin in Bloomtime: the city James Joyce knew. Viking, 1969.
Pierce, David. James Joyce's Ireland. Yale UP, 1992.
Pindar, Ian. Joyce. Haus, 2004.
Potts, Willard: ed. Portraits of the artist in exile: recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. U of Washington P, 1979; Harcourt, 1986.

Contributors:
Bruni, Alessandro Francini: "Joyce Stripped Naked in the Piazza"; "Recollections of Joyce"
Benco, Silvio: "James Joyce in Trieste"
Suter, August: "Some reminiscences of James Joyce"
Borach, Georges: "Conversations with James Joyce"
Frank, Nino: "The shadow that had lost its man"
Soupault, Philippe: "James Joyce"
Hoffmeister, Adolf: "James Joyce"
Vinding, Ole: "James Joyce in Copenhagen"
Parandowski, Jan: "Meeting with Joyce"
Gillet, Louis: "Farewell to Joyce"; "The living Joyce"
Mercanton, Jacques: "The hours of James Joyce"
Giedion-Welcker, Carola: "Meetings with Joyce"
Ruggerio, Paul && Paul Léon: "James Joyce's last days in Zurich"; "In memory of Joyce".
Pound, Ezra && Joyce, James. Pound/Joyce: the letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's essays on Joyce. Read, Forrest: ed. New Directions, 1967.
Power, Arthur. Conversations with James Joyce. Hart, Clive: ed. Barnes, 1974; U of Chicago P, 1982; Norris, David: fwd., Lilliput, 1999.
Pritchard, David. James Joyce: A Biography. Geddes, 2002; (The Irish writers), Mercier, 2020.
Quinn, Edward. James Joyce's Dublin, with the selected writings from Joyce's work. Secker, 1975.
Sullivan, Kevin. Joyce Among the Jesuits. Columbia UP, 1958.
Svevo, Italo. James Joyce: a lecture delivered in Milan in 1927. Joyce, Stanislaus, trans. New Directions, 1950; City Lights, 1967; City Lights, 1969; City Lights, 1970. City Lights, 1972.
Zapico, Alfonso. James Joyce: portrait of a Dubliner. Prendergast, David, trans. O'Brien, 2016. Written in Spanish and illustrated by Alfonso Zabico.