TEXTS

"Work in Progress”: various journals and small-press books 1924-1937
Finnegans Wake first edition: May 4, 1939: London: Faber & Faber; NY: Viking
Corrections of Misprints: separate 16-page list 1945, bound into book 1947; corrections incorporated into text 1958
A Shorter Finnegans Wake, ed. Anthony Burgess, 1967
Dutch translation by Erik Bindervoet and Robbert-Jan Henkes, 2002: list of Textual Variants, pp. 629-656; partial list in Oxford World’s Classics paperback, 2012, pp. 631-646
Restored Finnegans Wake, ed. Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon, Houyhnhnm 2010, Penguin 2012

MANUSCRIPTS

Anna Livia Plurabelle: The Making of a Chapter, ed. Fred H. Higginson (1960)
Scribbledehobble: The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans Wake, ed. Thomas E. Connolly (1961)
A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake, ed. David Hayman (1963)
James Joyce’s The Index Manuscript: Finnegans Wake Holograph Workbook VI.B.46, ed. Danis Rose (1977)
The James Joyce Archive, General Editor, Michael Groden (63 volumes, 1977-79) – Finnegans Wake volumes edited by David Hayman, Danis Rose, and John O’Hanlon; Notebooks = vols. 28-43, Drafts = 44-63
James Joyce’s Manuscripts: An Index, compiled by Michael Groden (1980)

BIOGRAPHY

Herbert S. Gorman, James Joyce (1940, revised 1948) - written with Joyce’s “assistance”
Stanislaus Joyce, My Brother’s Keeper: James Joyce’s Early Years (1958) - memoir by Joyce’s brother
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (1959, revised 1982) - the standard biography
Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (1988) - biography of Joyce’s wife
Peter Costello, James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915 (1992)
John Wyse Jackson and Peter Costello, John Stanislaus Joyce (1997) - biography of Joyce’s father
John McCourt, The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920 (2000)
Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance In the Wake (2003) - biography of Joyce’s daughter
Roger Norburn, A James Joyce Chronology (2004)
Gordon Bowker, James Joyce: A Biography [also subtitled A New Biography] (2011)

LETTERS

Letters, 3 vols - vol. 1, ed. Stuart Gilbert (1957), vols. 2-3, ed. Richard Ellmann (1966)
Selected Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann (1975)
James Joyce’s Letters to Sylvia Beach, 1921-1940, ed. Melissa Banta and Oscar A. Silverman (1987)

CRITICISM

Wyndham Lewis, “An Analysis of the Mind of James Joyce,” in Time and Western Man, pp. 73-110 (1927)
Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, and ten others, Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (1929)
Harry Levin, James Joyce: A Critical Introduction (1941, 2nd ed. 1960, includes review from 1939)
Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow (1947, includes article, revised, from 1939)
Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944)
Hugh Kenner, Dublin’s Joyce (1956)
James Atherton, The Books at the Wake (1960)
A. Walton Litz, The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (1961)
Clive Hart, Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake (1962)
Margaret C. Solomon, Eternal Geomater: The Sexual Universe of Finnegans Wake (1969)
William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake (1969)
Michael Begnal and Fritz Senn, ed., A Conceptual Guide to Finnegans Wake (1974)
Margot Norris, The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake (1976)
Roland McHugh, The Sigla of Finnegans Wake (1976)
Patrick A. McCarthy, The Riddles of  Finnegans Wake (1980)
Roland McHugh, The Finnegans Wake Experience (1981)
Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon, Understanding  Finnegans Wake (1982)
Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer, ed., Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French (1984)
Vincent J. Cheng, Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake (1984)
John Bishop, Joyce’s Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake (1986)
John Gordon, Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary (1986)
David Hayman, The Wake in Transit (1990)
Kimberly J. Devlin, Wandering and Return in Finnegans Wake (1991)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, James Joyce, Authorized Reader (1991; original French = 1984)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt (1991)
Susan Shaw Sailer, On the Void of To Be: Incoherence and Trope in Finnegans Wake (1993)
Sheldon Brivic, Joyce’s Waking Women: An Introduction to Finnegans Wake (1995)
Danis Rose, The Textual Diaries of James Joyce (1995)
Eric McLuhan, The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake (1997)
R.J. Schork, Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce (1997)
R.J. Schork, Greek and Hellenic Culture in Joyce (1998)
R.J. Schork, Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above! (2000)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001)
Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen, A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton wilder and Adaline Glasheen (2001)
Dirk Van Hulle, Textual Awareness: A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, & Mann (2004)
Eric Rosenbloom, A Word in Your Ear: How and Why to Read Finnegans Wake (2005)
George Cinclair Gibson, Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake (2005)
Richard Beckman, Joyce’s Rare View: The Nature of Things in Finnegans Wake (2007)
Luca Crispi and Sam Slote, ed., How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake (2007)
Finn Fordham, Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals (2007)
Philip Kitcher, Joyce’s Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake (2007)
Peter Mahon, Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas (2007)
Len Platt, Joyce, Race and Finnegans Wake (2007)
Dirk Van Hulle, Manuscript Genetics: Joyce’s Know-How, Beckett’s Nohow (2004)
Edmund Lloyd Epstein, A Guide Through Finnegans Wake (2009)
Tim Conley, ed, Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined: Re-exagmination of the “Exagmination” (2010)
Bill Cole Cliett, Riverrun to Livvy: Lots of Fun Reading the First Page of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (2011)

LANGUAGE LISTS, CHARACTER LISTS, ETC.

Adaline Glasheen, A Census of Finnegans Wake (1956); Second Census of Finnegans Wake (1963), Third Census of Finnegans Wake (1977)
Matthew J. C. Hodgart and Mabel P. Worthington, Song in the Works of James Joyce (1959)
Clive Hart, A Concordance to Finnegans Wake (1963)
Dounia Bunis Christiani, Scandinavian Elements in Finnegans Wake (1965)
Helmut Bonheim, A Lexicon of the German in Finnegans Wake (1967)
Brendan O Hehir, A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake (1967)
Brendan O Hehir and John M. Dillon, A Classical Lexicon for Finnegans Wake (1977)
Louis O. Mink, A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer (1978)
Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (1980; 2nd ed. 1991, 3rd ed. 2006)
Bill Cole Cliett, A Finnegans Wake Lextionary (2011)
C. George Sandulescu (http://sandulescu.perso.monaco.mc/): Romanian, Scandinavian, German, “Small” Languages, UnEnglish English, Segmentation/”Syllabifications,” Motifs, Literary Allusions, Musical Allusions, Geographical Allusions

MISCELLANEOUS

audio: “Anna Livia Plurabelle” (pp. 213-216), read by James Joyce (1929)
audio: “Shem the Penman” (excerpts), read by Cyril Cusack, and “Anna Livia Plurabelle” (excerpts), read by Siobhan McKenna (1961)
audio: complete reading by Patrick Healy (1992; excerpts 1995)
audio: abridged reading by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan (1998)
theater: Mary Manning, Passages from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: A Free Adaptation for the Theater (1957)
musical play: Jean Erdman, The Coach With the Six Insides (1962; title from FW 359.24)
film: Mary Ellen Bute, director, Passages from Finnegans Wake (1965)
music: John Cage, “The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs” (1942; setting of FW 556.01-10), recorded by Cathy Berberian, Robert Wyatt, Joey Ramone, and others
music: John Cage, Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1982)
music: André Hodeir, Anna Livia Plurabelle: A Jazz Cantata (1965-66)
graphic version: Tim Ahern, Finnegans Wake: Chapter One: The Illnesstraited Colossick Idition (1983)
graphic version: Tim Ahern, Finnegans Wake: The Final Chapter: The Illnesstraited Colossick Idition (2010)
graphic work: Jacob Drachler, Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation with Finnegans Wake (1978)