A comprehensive new Readers Guide lists the most important books about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The list below prepared by the Justice Integrity Project (JIP) is continuously updated and is part of a larger JIP project to catalog films, other videos, organizations, events, and commentaries. That project  is coordinated also with Citizens Against Political Assassinations (CAPA), on whose board JIP Editor Andrew Kreig serves.

More than 2,500 books are estimated to have been published in whole or part on the Kennedy assassination, according to Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) President James H. Lesar, who co-founded that non-profit in 1984.

The most significant of those books are listed below. The criteria for inclusion in the catalog was sales, expert citations, and similar impact. Inclusion is irrespective of whether the authors' point of view criticized or defended such conventional interpretations as the 1964 Warren Commission report on the assassination.

From this broader list, we identify a handful of books recommended for the general reader who desires a current and authoritative view in one volume that includes analysis,

The larger catalog below is not meant for casual reading. Instead, it is intended as a reference source for readers looking for a specific book.

Other segments of the Readers Guide cover the most relevant films and other videos, research centers, and events. Additional installments provide interpretative columns. The guide also contains a listing of major official reports on President Kennedy's death. In coordination with other researchers, the Justice Integrity Project plans similar Readers Guides for other major U.S. political assassinations, including the 1968 murders of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on the day he won California's presidential primary.