Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- By Michael A. Hiltzik; HarperBusiness, 1999, ISBN 0887309895. By author of The Soul of a New Machine, accessible history of Xerox PARC in 1970s/80s. Purchase sources, chapter sample, author information. [publisher website]
- http://www.harpercollins.com/book/index.aspx?isbn=9780887309892

Free Online Smalltalk Books
- Mostly out of print, many are classics; chapters are PDF format. [online]
- http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html

Jonathan Pletzke's Smalltalk Book List
- 1995-1997, The Technical Expertise Corp. Format: author name (last, first), title, publisher, year, ISBN, cost, pages, media.
- http://home.sprynet.com/~jpletzke/booklist.htm

The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion
- By Sherman R. Alpert, Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf; Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0201184621. Implements the 23 patterns in Smalltalk; rework of 1994 book that changed object-oriented software engineering, but used C++ code. [Addison-Wesley]
- http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201184621,00.html

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
- By Kent Beck; Prentice Hall, 1997, ISBN 013476904X. Real world style guide for better programming; gives set of patterns that organize informal experience successful Smalltalk programmers learned the hard way. [Prentice Hall]
- http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,013476904X,00.html

Smalltalk with Style
- By Suzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas; Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0131655493. For OO programming courses; fills gap between software engineering principles and practice of programming in OOP languages. [Prentice Hall]
- http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0131655493,00.html

Discovering Smalltalk
- By Wilf R. Lalonde; Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0805327207. Comprehensive introduction to language, detailed coverage of fundamental object-oriented programming concepts: objects, parts, methods, classes, inheritance. [Addison-Wesley]
- http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0805327207,00.html

Smalltalk-80: The Language
- By Adele Goldberg, David Robson; Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0201136880. Likely the most famous, influential Smalltalk book, and one of the first, by two of its original creators; considered a Smalltalk bible. [Addison-Wesley]
- http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201136880,00.html

On to Smalltalk
- By Patrick Henry Winston; Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0201498278. Each easily understood section adds new abilities to a short, representative Smalltalk program. [Addison-Wesley]
- http://www.aw-bc.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0201498278,00.html

A Little Smalltalk
- By Timothy Budd; Addison-Wesley, 1987, ISBN 0201106981. Guide to line-oriented semi-subset of Smalltalk-80 coded in C, by author; good introduction to elementary object-oriented programming. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201106981

The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System
- By David M. Ungar; dissertation sponsored by DARPA; read online or download PDF. [UC Berkeley SUNSITE, Online]
- ftp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/pub/techreps/CSD-86-287.html

Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
- Part 4: The Implementation, Chapters 26-30; defines full reference implementation for original 16-bit Smalltalk-80 Virtual Machine needed to run image. Code is all Smalltalk, written for clarity, not speed; optimizations left to implementors. [Online]
- http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html

Smalltalk: An Introduction to Application Development Using VisualWorks
- By Trevor Hopkins, Bernard Horan; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0133183874. Full guide with what users must know to start writing applications. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0133183874

Object-Oriented Engineering: Building Engineering Systems Using Smalltalk-80
- By John R. Bourne; CRC Press, 1992, ISBN 025611210X. Introduces understanding and using object-oriented methodologies for engineering problem solving, focus on analysis and design. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/025611210X

Smalltalk-80
- Addison-Wesley; 1989, ISBN 0201113716. Paperback. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201113716

Inside Smalltalk, Volume 1
- By Wilf R. Lalonde, John R. Pugh; Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0134684141. Introduces this object-oriented programming language, focusing on classes, subclassing, inheritance, message passing. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0134684141

Inside Smalltalk, Volume 2
- By Wilf R. Lalonde, John R. Pugh; Prentice Hall, 1991, ISBN 0134659643. Explores Smalltalk system as a potent and efficient prototyping and development environment. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0134659643

Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment
- By Adele Goldberg; Addison-Wesley, 1983, ISBN 0201113724. In depth explanation of the programming user interface. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201113724

Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
- Edited by Glen Krasner; Addison-Wesley, 1983, ISBN 0201116693. Tells how Smalltalk was first invented, and then how it was introduced to the world, with chapters by key participants. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201116693

The Art and Science of Smalltalk
- Review of book, very positive; book introduces programming in Smalltalk, explains optimal ways to think about and work with the system.
- http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/The+Art+and+Science+of+Smalltalk

Smalltalk, Objects, and Design
- By Chamond Liu; iUniverse.com, 2000, ISBN 1583484906. Programmer's guide integrates language with object-oriented design solutions; focus: practical alternatives, trade-offs. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583484906

The Dolphin Smalltalk Companion: A Hands-on Guide to Building Complete Applications
- Descriptions, reviews, purchase source. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201737930

The Smalltalk Developers Guide to VisualWorks
- By Timothy Howard; Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 013442526X, has CD-ROM. Describes ParcPlace environment in terms of basic Smalltalk ideas, shows how to solve problems, develop applications. [Amazon.com]
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013442526X