General

Bacon, Margaret Hope, Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).

Brinton, Howard H., Friends for 350 Years, with historical update and page and line notes by Margaret Hope Bacon (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2002). The history and beliefs of the Society of Friends since George Fox started the Quaker movement.

Benson, Lewis, Catholic Quakerism (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1966).  A challenging treatise on the revolutionary character of the original Quaker message and mission.

Hubbard, Geoffrey, Quaker by Convincement, rev. ed. (London: Quaker Home Service, 1985). A classic introduction to Quakerism.

Ingle, H. Larry, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (New York: Oxford Press, 1994).

Loring, Patricia, Listening Spirituality, Vol. II. Corporate Spiritual Practice Among Friends (Washington Grove, MD: Opening Press, 1999). Distributed in the United States through AFSC, FGC, and Pendle Hill bookstores, and in England through The Quaker Book Shop (London).

Smith, Robert, A Book of Quaker Wisdom (New York: Quill [an imprint of HarperCollins], 2002).

Stephen, Caroline, Quaker Stronghold (Wallingford, PA:  Pendle Hill Pamphlet #59, 1951). An abridgement that selects Caroline Stephen’s explanation of the tenets she considered to be the cornerstone and foundation of Quakerism.

Trueblood, Elton, A People Called Quakers (New York: Harper and Row, 1966).

Disciplines

Faith and Practice of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends (Worcester, MA: New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1986).

North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Faith and Practice (Corvallis, OR: North Pacific Yearly Meeting, 1993).

Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Faith and Practicez: A guide to Quaker Discipline in the Experience of Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (San Francisco: Pacific Yearly Meeting, 2001).

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Faith and Practice of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1998).

The Old Discipline: Nineteenth-Century Friends’ Disciplines in America (Glenside, PA:  Quaker Heritage Press, 1999).

The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, Quaker Faith and Practice: The Book of Christian Discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain (Warwick, England: Warwick Printing Company Limited, 2005). A wonderful resource for any Friend or meeting; contains abundant quotations from numerous sources. 

History

The Rowntree Series of Quaker Histories:

Braithwaite, William, The Beginnings of Quakerism, 2^nd ed., prepared by Henry J. Cadbury (London: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Braithwaite, William, The Second Period of Quakerism, 2^nd ed., prepared by Henry J. Cadbury (London: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Jones, Rufus, The Later Periods of Quakerism (two volues) (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1970).

Jones, Rufus, Quakers in the American Colonies (New York: Macmillan, 1911).

Jones, Rufus, Studies in Mystical Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1909).

Rufus Jones, Spiritual Reformers in the 16^th and 17^th Centuries (New York: Macmillan, 1944).

Other Histories:

Bacon, Margaret Hope, Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America.  (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).

Barbour, Hugh and J. William Frost, The Quakers (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1994).

Cooper, Wilmer A., A Living Faith: An Historical Study of Quaker Beliefs (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1990).

Garman, Mary, ed., Hidden in Plain Sight: Quaker Women’s Writings, 1650–1700: The Story of Quaker Women in America (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1996).   

Ingle, Larry H., Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1998). A solid exploration of the issues, personalities, and events surrounding the Orthodox–Hicksite schism, with a special emphasis on the competing visions of the future of the Society of Friends held by each side.

Manousos, Anthony, ed., A Western Quaker Reader: Writings by and about Independent Quakers in the Western United States, 1929–1999 (Whittier, CA:  Friends Bulletin Corporation, 2000).

Stephen, Caroline Emelia, Quaker Strongholds, Centenary ed. (Chula Vista, CA: Wind and Rock Press, 1995).

Taylor, Ernest Edwin, The Valiant Sixty (York, England: Sessions Book Trust, The Ebor Trust, 1988). Original copyright 1947.

Vipont, Elfrida, George Fox and the Valiant Sixty (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975).

Quaker Classics

Barclay, Robert, Barclay’s Apology in Modern English, Dean Freiday, ed. (Newberg, OR: The Barclay Press, 1991).

Brinton, Anna Cox, E. P. Mather, and R. J. Leach, Quaker Classics in Brief: William Penn, Robert Barclay, and Isaac Penington (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1978).

Fox, George, Journal of George Fox, John L. Nickalls, ed. (London: Religious Society of Friends, 1975).

Fox, George, No More but my Love: Letters of George Fox, Cecil Sharman, ed. (London:  Quaker Home Service, 1980).

Penington, Isaac, The Light Within and Selected Readings (London: Tract Association of Friends, 1984). Abridged from four volumes of this early Quaker writer’s work.

Penn, William, No Cross, No Crown, Ronald Selleck, ed.(Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1981).

Steere, Douglas, ed., Quaker Spirituality:  Selected Writings (Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984).

Woolman, John, The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman, Phillips P. Moulton, ed. (Richmond, IN:  Friends United Press, 1989).

Journals and Biography

Ambler, Rex, Truth of the Heart (London: Quaker Books, 2001).

Bacon, Margaret Hope, The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America  (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1985).