The Battle of Savo Island: The Harrowing Account of the Disastrous Night Battle Off Guadalcanal that Nearly Destroyed the Pacific Fleet in August 1942, Richard F. Newcomb, Owl Books; 2nd Rev edition (May 1, 2002)

Guadalcanal : The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, Richard B. Frank, Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (January 1, 1992)

The Battle for Guadalcanal, Samuel B. Griffith, University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition (June, 2000)

The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War, Samuel Eliot Morison, Galahad Books (November, 1997)