All the books reviewed here are books that I own and have read and recommend. If you buy one of these books through the link provided on the page with the review, I get a small kickback from Amazon Books, which I will use to offset the cost of running these pages. In the rare event that there's money left over, it'll go the the International Dark Sky Association.

The two must have ATM books are Richard Berry's Build Your Own Telescope and Jean Texereau's How to Make a Telescope. These books cover the mechanics and optics, respectively, for making your first telescope.

Review of

• Robert Miller & Kenneth Wilson, Making and Enjoying Telescopes

More reviews coming, of

• Dick Suiter, Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes
• Alan Macintosh, Advanced Telescope Making Techniques - Optics
• Alan Macintosh, Advanced Telescope Making Techniques - Mechanical
• Albert Ingalls, Amateur Telescope Making I
• David Kriege & Richard Berry, The Dobsonian Telescope
• Harrie G.J. Rutten, Martin A.M. Van Venrooij, Telescope Optics: Evaluation and Design
• Mark Trueblood & Russel Genet, Telescope Control
• Phil Harrington, Star Ware

And some observing guides as well:

• Guy Consolmango & Dan Davis, Turn Left at Orion
• Phil Harrington, The Deep Sky: An Introduction
• H. C. Pennington, The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide
• Raymo, 365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year
• Dickinson, Ferris & Costanzo, Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe