The following is a list of recommended books and magazines for those interested in learning more about the history of Arlington.

Ambitious Failure: Chain Bridge, the First Bridge Across the Potomac River - Carole L. Herrick

Apple Picking, Tobacco Harvesting, & Gen. Lee - Toby MacIntosh

Arlington County Chronicles - Charlie Clark

Arlington County in Virginia: A Pictorial History - Nan and Ross Netherton 

Arlington County, Virginia: A History - C.B. Rose, Jr.

Arlington Heritage: Vignettes of a Virginia Colony - Eleanor Lee Templeman

Arlington Historical Magazine (1957-Current)- Arlington Historical Society

August 24, 1814: Washington in Flames - Carole L. Herrick

Bar Nostalgia: Memories and Reflections of the Arlington Legal Community, from the 1950s to the Present - Ken McFarlane Smith

Bridge Builders of Nauck/Green Valley - Dr. Alfred O. Taylor, Jr.

Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 - Anthony S. Pitch

The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia - Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne and Barbara C. Batson

Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington D.C. - Garrett Peck

Cherrydale - Dean Simpson Phillips

Civil War Northern Virginia, 1861 - William S. Connery

Code Girls - Liza Mundy

Elephants and Quaker Guns - Jane Chapman White

Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11 - Patrick Creed and Rick Newman

Glebe Houses of Colonial Virginia - Willard J. Webb and Anne C. Webb

George Washington Parke Custis, A Rarefied Life in America's First Family - Charlie Clark

Hidden History of Arlington County - Charlie Clark

Lost Arlington - Charlie Clark

Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington - Frank Cooling, Wally Owen

My Halls Hill Family: More Than a Neighborhood - Wilma Jones

Shotgun Justice: One Prosecutor's Crusade against Crime and Corruption in Alexandria and Arlington - Michael Lee Pope

Then Came the Fire: Personal Accounts from the Pentagon, 11 September 2001 - Stephen J. Lofgren

Walk Four Mile Run: A Chain of Parks - Martin Suydam

Walks with Charley: Sniffing Arlington Ridge History - Martin Suydam

Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, 1847-1968 - Ames W. Williams

You Must be a Jones - Lydia Jones Cole

Zula Remembers - Zula Dietrich