These books cover the parts of the Body of Knowledge. Books with item numbers in bold can be purchased from ASQ . Our courses usually only require the purchase of the CRE primer. This list was compiled July 2004.

Abernethy, Robert B., The New Weibull Handbook, 4th ed., North Palm Beach, FL: R. B. Abernethy; Houston: Distributed by Gulf Publishing Co., 2000. ISBN 0965306216 (Practical)
Breyfogle, Forrest, Statistical Methods for Testing, Development, and Manufacturing, New York: Wiley, 1992. ISBN 0471540358
Dovich, Robert A., Reliability Statistics, Milwaukee, WI: ASQC Quality Press, 1990. H0601 (Practical)
Elsayed A. Elsayed, Reliability Engineering, Amazon.com SBN 0201634813 (Theoretical)
Grant, Eugene L., and Richard S. Leavenworth, Statistical Quality Control, 7th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1996. P597
Gryna, Frank M., Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development through Use, 4th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. P817
Humphrey, Watts S., Managing the Software Process, Boston: Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1989. ISBN 0201180952
Ireson, W. Grant, ed., Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management, 2nd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1996. ISBN 0070127506
Ishikawa, Kaoru, Guide to Quality Control, White Plains, NY: Quality Resources, 1986. P104
Juran, Joseph M., Juran’s Quality Handbook, 5th ed., New York, McGraw-Hill, 1999. P660
Kazmierski, Thomas J., Statistical Problem Solving in Quality Engineering, New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1995. ISBN 007034048X
Kececioglu, Dimitri, Reliability and Life Testing Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, DEStech Publications, 1993. ISBN Vol 1: 1932078029, ISBN Vol 2: 1932078037
Kececioglu, Dimitri, Reliability Engineering Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, DEStech Publications, 1993. ISBN Volume 1: 1932078002, ISBN Volume 2: 1932078010
Krishnamoorthi, K.S., Reliability Methods for Engineers, Milwaukee, WI: ASQC Quality Press, 1992. ISBN 0873891619 (Practical)
Leemis, Lawrence, Reliability: Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995 ISBN 0137205171 (Theoretical)
Mendenhall, William, James E. Reinmuth, and Robert J. Beaver, Statistics for Management and Economics, 7th ed., Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press, 1993. ISBN 0534932991
Modarres, Mohammad, Mark Kaminskiy, Vasiliy Krivtsov, Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis: A Practical Guide, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999. ISBN 0824720008
Montgomery, Douglas C., Design and Analysis of Experiments, 5th ed., New York John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000. P773 (Theoretical)
Nelson, Wayne, Accelerated Testing, Statistical Models, Test Plans and Data Analyses, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1990. ISBN 0471522775 (Theoretical)
Nelson, Wayne, Applied Life Data Analysis, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1982. ISBN 0471094587 (Theoretical)
Nelson, Wayne, Volume 6: How to Analyze Reliability Data, Milwaukee, WI: ASQC Quality Press, 1983. T3506 (Practical)
O’Connor, Patrick D. T., Test Engineering, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2001. ISBN 0471498823 (Practical)
O’Connor, Patrick D. T., Practical Reliability Engineering 4th ed., Halsted Press, 2002. P899 (Practical)
Pyzdek, Thomas, Quality Engineering Handbook, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000. ISBN 0824703650
Smith, Anthony, Glenn Hinchcliffe, Reliability Centered Maintenance: Gateway to World Class Maintenance, 2nd Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003. ISBN 075067461X
Stamatis, D. H., Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: FMEA from Theory to Execution, 2nd ed., Milwaukee, WI: ASQ Quality Press, 2003. H1188