Please note I have not read all of these in full, but they have come up time and time again in my searches for more information about the movement. This is also not a complete list, merely a starting point. Books grouped into rough categories and listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name.

Christian Way also has an excellent resource list: http://www.christianway.org/resource%20list.htm

About Christian Science

• Christian Science Falsely So Called by William Leon Brown
• Christian science, an apostasy from science and Christianity: a course of lectures by Cyril Buotich
• God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser
• Christian Science and Kindred Delusions by Luther Harkness

• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: Its Encounter With Lesbian/Gay America by Bruce Stores
• Christian Science by Mark Twain

• Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy by Nancy Niblack Baxter
• Open the doors of the Temple: The Survival of Christian Science by Nancy Niblack Baxter
• Christian Science and the Myth of Matter by Ann Beals
• 500 Watching Points: for Advancing Students of Christian Science by Gilbert Congdon Carpenter CSB
• Christian Science Class Instruction by Mr. Arthur Corey
• Christian Science: The Revelation of Christ (Classic Reprint) by John W. Doorly
• Notes on the Course in Divinity Given by Mary Baker Eddy, Recorded by Lida Fitzpatrick, C.S.D. and others: The Carpenter Collection of Works on Christian Science by Lida Fitzpatrick C.S.D.
• The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life by Stephen Gottschalk
• Lectures and Articles on Christian Science by Edward Kimball
• Christian Science: its divine authority by Bliss Knapp
• Christian Science Re-Explored by Margaret Laird C.S.B
• THE GOOD SIDE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE by Christian D. Larson
• Christian Science Healing: Its Principles and Practice with Full Explanations for Home Students by Frances Lord
• Christian Science: Women, Healing, and the Church by Deidre Michell
• Century of Christian Science Healing by CS Publishing
• The Christian Science Sunday School Handbook, Stepping-stones to Excellence by Christian Science Publishing Society
• Christian Science: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Materials
• Christian Science: An Exposition of Mrs. Eddy’s Wonderful Discovery, Including its Legal Aspects by William Purrington
• Christian Science and Its Discoverer by E. Mary Ramsay

 Various Editions of Science & Health

• Science and Health First Edition (1875)
• Science and Health Second Edition (1878)
• Science and Health Third Edition (1881)
• Science and Health Fiftieth Edition (1891)
• Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized Edition)

Modern Interpretations of Science & Health

• 21st Century Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Cheryl Petersen
• A Woman’s Book of Healing: An Adaptation of Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy by Carolyn Gage

Christian Science, Faith Healing, Mental Healing, Health & Failure

• Deadly Blessings: Faith Healing on Trial by Richard Brenneman
• The Crime of Dorothy Sheridan by Leo Damore
• Mind Sciences: Christian Science, Religious Science, Unity School of Christianity (Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements) by Todd Ehrenborg
• The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington
• Perfect Peril: Christian Science and Mind Control by Linda Kramer
• The Religion That Kills: Christian Science: Abuse, Neglect, and Mind Control by Linda Kramer
• Mental Healing In Judaism: Its Relationship To Christian Science And Psychoanalysis by S. Felix Mendelsohn
• Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition: Principle, Practice, and Challenge (Health/Medicine and the Faith Traditions) by Robert Peel
• Creative Malady : Illness in the Lives and Minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sir George White Pickering
• Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing (Classic Reprint) by Frank Podmore
• Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context) by Rennie B. Schoepflin
• Mental Healers: Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul

Prolific Christian Science Writers, Thinkers & Organizations

• Herbert W. Eustace: Christian Science: Its Clear Correct Teaching and Complete Writings, Christian Science: Science Understood Translates Matter (the Beast of Revelation) Into Mind
• Footsteps Of His Flock (publishing group)
• M. Wright Helen
• Emma Curtis Hopkins
• Max Kappeler: The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook–Our Way of Life, Vol. I: Revelation of the Structure

The Christian Science Monitor

• The Christian Science Monitor: Its History, Mission, and People by Keith S. Collins
• The First 80 Years: The Christian Science Monitor 1908-1988 by Foell
• The Christian Science Monitor: An Evolving Experiment in Journalism by Linda K. Fuller
• Faith on Trial: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science and the First Amendment by Peter A. Wallner

Christian Science in History & Architecture

• Christian Science after 1910 by Andrew W Hartsook
• Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930 by Paul Ivey
• Christian Science Military Ministry 1917-2004 by CS Publishing
• Christian Science in Germany by Frances Thurber Seal
• Christian Science in East Germany: The Church that Came in from the Cold by Dr. Gregory W. Sandford
• Christian science and legislation: The endeavor to handicap truth by Unknown

Christian Science & Other Regions

Catholicism

• Christian Science And The Catholic Faith by Augustine Matthias Bellwald
• What Is The Christian Science Religion? by Rev. Dr. L. Rumble

Cults

• Christian Science: What Do They Believe? (Cults and Isms) by Val Waldeck
• The Four Major Cults: Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism by Anthony A. Hoekema

Memoirs by former Christian Scientists

• What If It’s Wrong, Lord? Why I Left Christian Science by Jay Bea
• fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science by Lucia Greenhouse
• God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser
• Pretend You Don’t See The Elephant: The Family Secrets And Silence of Christian Science by Carol-Ann Medina
• The Unseen Shore: Memories of a Christian Science Childhood by Thomas Simmons
• Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood by Barbara Wilson

Memoirs by Christian Science Converts

• A Spiritual Journey: Why I Became A Christian Scientist by Richard A. Nenneman
• From The Methodist Pulpit Into Christian Science And How I Demonstrated The Abundance Of Substance And Supply by Severin E. Simonsen

First Church, Christ Science Boston and the early years of Christian Science

• The Construction of the Mother Church: Reminiscences of Edward P. Bates, C.S.D. by Mr. Edward P. Bates C.S.D.,David L. Keyston (Author)
• “Love’s Chosen Love” : A Record of Events Leading Up to Two Letters from Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson Following Mrs. Stetson’s Excommunication by Mary Baker Eddy, Gail M. Weatherbe
• Vital Issues in Christian Science: A Record of Unsettled Questions Which Arose in the Year 1909, Between the Directors of the Mother Church, the First … Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, by by Mary Baker Eddy, Augusta Emma Stetson
• Pioneers in Christian Science: Portraits Exhibited in the Museum and Biographical Sketches From the Society’s Collection (Longyear Historical Society, Mary Baker Eddy Museum) by Longyear Historical Society

 Mary Baker Eddy & Plagiarism

• Mrs. Eddy Purloins from Hegel by Walter Haushalter
• The Quimby Manuscripts Showing the Discovery of Spiritual Healing and the Origin of Christian Science (Classic Reprint) by P.P. Quimby

Mary Baker Eddy – Biographies

• Complete Exposure of Eddyism or Christian Science: The Plain Truth in Plain Terms Regarding Mary Baker G. Eddy by Anonymous
• Twain and Eddy: The Conflicted Relationship of Mark Twain and Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy by Paul Brody
• Mary Baker Eddy: Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert C. Carpenter
• Editorial Comments On the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy by Christian Science Publishing Society
• Mrs. Eddy; The biography of a virginal mind, by Edwin F. Dakin
• The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: The Rise and Fall of Christian Science by Martin Gardner
• The Founding of Christian Science: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy (1888-1900) (The Womanhood of God Series Vol. 2) by Doris Grekel
• Mary Baker Eddy (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Gillian Gill
• Mary Baker Eddy, Speaking for Herself by Mary Baker Eddy
• Editorial Comments On The Life And Work Of Mary Baker Eddy – Dicoverer And Founder Of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy
• Passing of Mary Baker Eddy by Edward Clarence Farnsworth
• METAPHORS IN THE STUDY OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: And the Light they Shed on its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy by Robert C Goodspeed
• The Discovery of the Science of Man: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1888) by Doris Grekel
• Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy’s Challenge to Materialism (Religion in North America) by Stephen Gottschalk
• A Child’s Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Ella Hay, L. Franklin Van Zelm
• Mary Baker Eddy by Elbert Hubbard
• Mary Baker Eddy: Webster’s Timeline History, 1787 – 2006 by Icon Group International
• Mrs. Eddy As I Knew Her, Being Some Contemporary Portraits of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science by Hugh Anketell Studdert Kennedy (editor)
• MARY BAKER EDDY: a concise story of her life and work by Myra Belle Horne Lord
• The life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the history of Christian science by Georgine Milmine
• Persistent Pilgrim: The LIfe of Mary Baker Eddy by Richard A. Nenneman
• Mary Baker Eddy’s Six Days of Revelation: (The Green Book) by Richard Oakes
• Mary Baker Eddy’s Challenge To The World Accepted And Answered by Arthur E. Overbury
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery v. 1 by Robert Peel
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority by Robert Peel
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial 1876-1891 by Robert Peel
• The Mother of Christian Science: The Life and Legacy of Mary Baker Eddy by Charles River, Editor
• Mary Baker Eddy: A Special Friend by Karin Sass
• The Private Life of Mary Baker Eddy – Champion of a Mirage by Charles W. Sellers
• Mary Baker Eddy, an interpretive biography of the founder of Christian Science by Julius Silberger
• In Defense of Mary Baker Eddy and The Remnant of Her Seed: A Compilation of His Articles by Paul Smilie
• Mary Baker Eddy The Prophetic and Historical Perspective by Paul and Sharon Smilie
• A Guide to the Life of Mary Baker Eddy and to the Teachings of Christian Science (Annotated) by Clifford P. Smith
• Mary Baker Eddy: Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (Twentieth-Century Biographers Series) by Louise A. Smith
• According To The Flesh: A Biography Of Mary Baker Eddy by Fleta Campbell Springer
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition by E. Sutherland and John V. Dittmore Bates
• “With Bleeding Footsteps”: Mary Baker Eddy’s Path to Religious Leadership by Robert D. Thomas
• Twelve Years With Mary Baker Eddy: Recollections & Experiences (Twentieth-Century Biographers Series) by Irving C. Tomlinson
• The life of Mary Baker Eddy, by Sibyl Wilbur
• Mary Baker Eddy Reveals Your Divinity: Continuing An Examination of the First Edition of Science and Health by Helen Wright

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