Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. Illustrated by Abigail Rorer. Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan. Introduction by Robert D. Richardson. Washington and Covelo, Calif.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1993.
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Wild Fruits. Edited and Introduced by Bradley P. Dean. Illustrated by Abigail Rorer. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1999.
Scharnhorst, Gary. Henry David Thoreau: An Annotated Bibliography of Comment and Criticism before 1900. New York: Garland, 1992.
Biographies
Borst, Raymond R. A Thoreau Log: A Documentary Life of Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992.
Canby, Henry Seidel. Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
Channing, William Ellery. Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist. Edited by F. B. Sanborn. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902.
Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Lebeaux, Richard. – Young Man Thoreau. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. – Thoreau’s Seasons. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
Meltzer, Milton and Walter Harding. A Thoreau Profile. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1962.
Richardson, Robert D., Jr. Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Salt, Henry S. The Life of Henry David Thoreau. London: Walter Scott, 1896.
Walls, Laura Dassow. Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
General Criticism
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge Mass.: Belknap Press, 1995.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Joel Myerson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Harding, Walter, and Michael Meyer. A New Thoreau Handbook. New York: New York University Press, 1980.