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The following is alist of books and essays by and/or aboutDavid Lynch.

• Welcome to Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town (1991) (co-author with Mark Frost, Richard Saul Wurman, Gregg Almquist, Tricia Brock, Harley Peyton, Lisa Friedman, Robert Engels)
• Fire Walk With Me: Screenplay (1991) (co-author with Robert Engels)
• Images (1994)
• Lost Highway screenplay (co-author with Barry Gifford)
• Distorted Nudes (2004)
• Catching the Big Fish (2006)
• The Air Is on Fire (2007)
• Snowmen (2007)^[1]
• Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
• David Lynch: Works on Paper (2011)^[2]
• Genealogies of Pain (2011)
• David Lynch: Chaos Theory Of Violence And Silence (official catalog of the exhibition of the same name that was held at the Laforet Museum Harajuku, Japan from November 10 to December 2, 2012)
• David Lynch: Circle of Dreams (official catalog of the exhibition of the same name that was held at the Centre de la Gravure, Belgium from February 23 to May 19, 2013)
• The Factory Photographs (2014)
• Naming (2014)
• Nudes (2017)^[3]
• Room to Dream (2018)^[4]

• Foreword toTony Nader's Consciousness Is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life (2024)^[5][6]

• Kaleta, Kenneth C. (1993).David Lynch. Twayne Publishers.ISBN 978-0-8057-9317-8.
• Wallace, David Foster (1996).David Lynch Keeps His Head (essay). Premiere magazine.;
• Nochimson, Martha P. (1997).The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood. University of Texas Press.ISBN 978-0292755659.
• Rodley, Chris (1997).Lynch on Lynch. Faber and Faber.
• Sheen, Erica; Davison, Annette (2004).The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions. Wallflower Press.ISBN 978-1-903364-85-7.
• Žižek, Slavoj (2005).The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.ISBN 9780295979250.
• Odell, Colin;Le Blanc, Michelle (2007).David Lynch. Kamera Books.ISBN 978-1842432259.
• Olson, Greg (29 September 2008).David Lynch: Beautiful Dark. Scarecrow Press.ISBN 978-0-8108-6371-2.
• Barney, Richard A. (2009).David Lynch: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi.ISBN 978-1-60473-236-8.
• Mactaggart, Allister (2010).The Film Paintings of David Lynch: Challenging Film Theory. Intellect Books.ISBN 978-1-84150-332-5.
• Devlin, William J. (2011).The Philosophy of David Lynch (Philosophy Of Popular Culture). University Press of Kentucky.ISBN 978-0813129914.
• Nochimson, Martha P. (2013).David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire. University of Texas Press.ISBN 978-0274707232.
• Lim, Dennis (2015).David Lynch: The Man from Another Place. New Harvest.ISBN 978-0544343757.
• Reid, James D. (2019).Agency and Imagination in the Films of David Lynch: Philosophical Perspectives (Cine-Aesthetics: New Directions in Film and Philosophy). Lexington Books.ISBN 978-1498555937.
• Ruers, Jamie; Marianski, Stefan (2022).Freud/Lynch: Behind the Curtain. Karnac Books.ISBN 978-1912691951.
• Miley, Mike (2025).David Lynch’s American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema. Bloomsbury Academic.ISBN 979-8765102893.

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