New Wave Explosion: How Punk Became New Wave Became The 80's (Myles Palmer, 1981)
International New Wave Discography (B. George & Martha Defoe, 1982)
Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop (Dave Rimmer, 1985)
Who's New Wave in Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1976-1982 (David Bianco, 1985)
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (Greil Marcus, 1989)
England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (Jon Savage, 1991)
In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music 1977-1992 (Greil Marcus, 1993)
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain, 1997)
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave (Colin Larkin, 1998)
Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk (Vernon Joynson, 2001)
Between Montmarte to the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde (Bernard Gendron, 2002)
Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock 1970-1982 (George Gimarc, 2005)
Rip It Up & Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 (Simon Reynolds, 2005)
This Ain't No Disco: New Wave Album Covers (Jennifer McKnight-Trontz, 2005)
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge (Clinton Heylin, 2007)
New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88 (Collectif, 2007)
No Wave, Post-punk, Underground, New York. 1976-1980 (Thurston Moore & Byron Coley, 2008)
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews (Simon Reynolds, 2009)
Europunk: The Visual Culture of Punk in Europe 1976-1980 (Eric de Chassey & Fabrice Stroun, 2011)
Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 80s (Theo Cateforis, 2011)
The Encyclopedia of New Wave (Daniel Bukszpan, 2012)
UK Post-Punk: 1977-1982 (Simon Reynolds, 2012)
Punk: An Aesthetic (Johan Kugerlberg & Jon Savage, 2012)
Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to Modern (Julia Downes, 2012)
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs... (Lori Majewski & Jonathan Bernstein, 2014)
Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds... (Nick Crossley, 2015)
What is Post-Punk? A Genre Study of Avant-Garde Pop, 1977-1982 (Mimi Haddon, 2015)
New Wave: Image is Everything (M. King Adkins, 2015)
Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain (David Wilkinson, 2016)
Post-Punk Then and Now (Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun, Mark Fisher, 2016)
New Waves, Old Hands and Unknown Pleasures: The Music of 1979 (Sean Egan, 2019)
What Is Post-Punk? Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-82 (Mimi Haddon, 2020)
A Field Guide to Post-Punk & New Wave (Steve Wide, 2020)
Reversing Into the Future: New Wave Graphics 1977–1990 (Andrew Krivine, 2021)
Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity from Punk to New Wave (Simon Strange, 2022)

Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Dick Hebdige, 1979)

Verschwende Deine Jugend: ein Doku-Roman über den deutschen Punk und New Wave (Jürgen Teipel, 2001)
Génération Extrême : 1975-1982 du Punk à la Cold-wave (Frédéric Thébault, 2005)
L'Esthétique New Wave (Guillaume Gilles, 2006)
Génération Chaos : Punk, New Wave 1975-1981 (Christophe Bourseiller, 2007)
Jean-François Bizot présente la New Wave (Jean Rouzaud & Mariel Primois, 2007)
Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes : Post Punk, Cold Wave et Culture Novö en France 1978-1983 (Collectif, 2008)
New Wave : Photo-journal des Années Modernes, album 1977-1983 (Pierre René-Worms, 2009)
Post-Punk, No-Wave, Indus & Noise (Philippe Robert, 2011)
New Wave Vinyls : du Post Punk à la New Pop (Dominique Dupuis, 2011)
New Wave 1978-1984 Un produit culturel anglais globalisé ? (Laurene Exposito, 2014)
Post-Punk : 1978-85 (Pierre Mikaïloff & Pierre Terrasson, 2015)
Groupes Pop à Mèches 1979-1984 (Pierre Robin, 2015)
Discographie personnelle de la New Wave (Pol Dodu, 2015)
Standing On A Beach : La New Wave en 100 disques essentiels (Sylvain Fanet, 2019)
Disorder : Histoire sociale des mouvements punk et post-punk (Edwards, Grossi & Schor, 2019)
French New Wave, 1978-1988 : une jeunesse moderne (Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe, 2021)
Dictionnaire passionné de la new wave (Pedro Penas Y Robles, 2022)
Les Années New Wave 1978-1983 (Jean-Daniel Beauvallet, 2022)

NovöVision : Les Confessions d'un Cobaye du Siècle (Yves Adrien, 1980)

Punk Alphabet (Caroline Coon, 1976)
New Musick (Jon Savage, 1977)
New Wave Hegemony and the Bebop Question (Robert Christgau, 1979)
No Wavelength : The Para-Punk Underground (Jim Hoberman, 1979)
Is New-Wave Rock on the Way Out? (Patrick Goldstein, 1980)
Post-punk Blues (Simon Frith, 1983)
Post Punk Graphics : The Displaced Present, Perfectly Placed (Philip Brophy, 1990)
The Future of 'No Future' : Punk Rock and Postmodern Theory (Jude Davis, 1996)
It Was Easy It Was Cheap ? Go And Do It! (Johan Kugelberg, 2001)
Dancing on the Edge: from avant-funk and mutant disco to the postpunk revival (Simon Reynolds, 2001)
Pangs of History in late 1970s New-wave Rock (John Covach, 2003)
When Punk Met Funk (Greg Wilson, 2003)
Sounds of Future Past : from Neu! to Numan (Sean Albiez, 2003)
Punk after 'Punk' in the UK : 1978-1984 (Sean Albiez, 2004)
Performing the Avant-Garde Groove: Devo and the Whiteness of the New Wave (Theo Cateforis, 2004)
The Connection Between Hip Hop, New Wave and Punk (Davey D, 2005)
Post-punk Esoterica (Simon Reynolds, 2005)
Philosophizing Post-punk (Ben Watson, 2005)
Now That's What I Call New Pop (Alex Ogg, 2005)
Beyond Rip It Up : Towards A New Definition of Post Punk? (Jess Harvell, 2005)
Exchange Theories in Disco, New Wave, and Album-Oriented (Charles Kronengold, 2008)
Postpunk then and now (Simon Reynolds, 2009)
Punk and the Question of 'Post-Punk' (J Kaw, 2009)
Postpunksampler (Julian Cope, 2009)
The Death of New Wave (Theo Cateforis, 2009)
'New Pop' and the Problem of Unravelling Cultural Histories (Sara L. Shepherd, 2009)
The Dummy Guide To Cold Wave (Dan Nixon, 2010)
What's So New about New Wave? (A.D. Jameson, 2010)
1979 is 2011: Post-Punk on the Road Again (Norma Coates, 2011)
Living the Urban Crisis at the New Wave Rent Party (Leonard Nevarez, 2011)
Can I Have A Taste of Your Ice Cream? (Lucy O’Brien, 2011)
New Wave, Same Old Whiteness (Robin James, 2012)
The Greatest Post-Punk Bands You Never Heard (A.S. Van Dorston, 2013)
The Substance Of Style (Maddy Sparham, 2013)
Reggae and the Punk Legacy (Helen McCookerybook, 2013)
New Wave Doesn’t Mean Anything, And That’s Okay (Matt M, 2013)
Pop Manifestos and Nosebleed Art-Rock: What Has Post-Punk Achieved? (Guy Mankowski, 2014)
Look sharp! Revisiting the graphics of the New Wave era (Simon Reynolds, 2021)
Low-End Revolution: How UK New Wave And Post-Punk Changed Bass Playing (Jim Allen, 2023)
Representations of the 'Far East' in British New Wave Music (Shijiao Kou, 2023)

Reappraising 'Counterculture' (Andy Bennett, 2012)
Le DIY comme dynamique contre-culturelle ? (Fabien Hein, 2012)
The Rock Counterculture ... (Christophe Den Tandt, 2012)
The Long Freak Out (Jay Keister, 2012)

Post Punk Féminin (Philippe Delvosalle, 2007)
Trans-Europe Post-Punk (Gilles Le Guen, 2008)
L'Héritage Post-punk (Gaël Lombart, 2011)
Les Vieux de la New Wave (Giulio Callegari, 2013)
Cold Wave : L'ère Glacière A La Française (Arnaud Plessier, 2013)
Le Post-punk, entre Contestation et Mainstream (Zones Subversives, 2014)