Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
Piers Bizony & Jamie Doran, Bloomsbury, 1999 (ISBN 9780747542674)

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact
Colin Burgess & Rex Hall, Springer, 2009 (ISBN 9780387848235)

Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965
Francis French & Colin Burgess, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2007 (ISBN 0803211465)

Russia’s Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre
Bert Vis, David J. Shayler & Rex Hall, Springer-Praxis, 2005 (ISBN 0387218947)

The Road to the Stars
Yuri Gagarin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1961

Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat the Americans to the Moon
James Harford, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 (ISBN 0471148539)

Two Sides of the Moon
Alexei Leonov, David Scott, Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2004 (ISBN 0312308655)

Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974
Asif Siddiqi, NASA, Washington DC, 2000 (SP-2000-4408)

Vostok-1, First Human in Space
Michael D. Cole, Springfield, Enslow, 2005 (ISBN 0894905414)

The Soviet Cosmonaut Team
Gordon R. Hooper, GRH Publications, Suffolk, 1986, (ISBN 0951131206)

The Rocket Men: Vostok and Voskhod, The First Soviet Manned Spaceflights
Rex Hall & David Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2001 (ISBN 9781852333911)

Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft
Rex Hall & David Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2003 (ISBN 9781852336578)

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
Mitchell R. Sharpe, Strode, 1969, (ISBN 978-0873972031)

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
Wilfred Burchett & Anthony Purdy, A.Gibbs & Phillips, London, 1961