Jacqueline Mitton's books

For adults

Astronomy: An Introduction  (Faber, 1978)

Star Atlas  (Jonathan Cape, 1979, with Simon Mitton)

Key Definitions in Astronomy  (Frederick Muller, 1980)

Invitation to Astronomy  (Basil Blackwell, 1986, with Simon Mitton)

Concise Dictionary of Astronomy  (Oxford University Press, 1991)

The Penguin Dictionary of Astronomy  (1992, revised edition 1998)

The Great Comet Crash  (Cambridge University Press, 1995, contributor, and co-editor with John Spencer of Lowell Observatory)

Gems of Hubble  (Cambridge University Press, 1996, with Stephen Maran)

Pluto and Charon : Ice worlds at the ragged edge of the solar system (Wiley, Inc, New York, 1997, with with Alan Stern)

The Cambridge Dictionary of Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Lifting Titan's Veil (Cambridge University Press, 2002,  with Ralph Lorenz)

Asteroid Rendezvous: NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at Eros (Cambridge University Press, 2002; co-editor with Jim Bell)

Pluto and Charon : Ice worlds at the ragged edge of the solar system ( 2nd edition) (Wiley, Germany, 2005, with Alan Stern)

The Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 31 December 2007)

Titan Unveiled (Princeton University Press, 2008; co-author with Ralph Lorenz)

Eyewitness Moon (Book and CD, Dorling Kindersley, 2009)

The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Jacqueline Mitton, consultant editor and major contributor. (Dorling-Kindersley, 2017)

For children and younger readers

Discovering Astronomy  (Longman, 1979; co-author Simon Mitton)

Children’s Britannica  (astronomy articles) (1984)

Discovering the Planets  (Eagle Books, 1991)

Oxford Children's Encyclopedia (all astronomy and some other articles) (1991)

Oxford Astronomy (1st published as The Young Oxford Book of Astronomy)  (Oxford University Press, 1994; co-author Simon Mitton)

Galileo  (in 'What's their story?' series, Oxford University Press, 1997)

Zoo in the Sky  (Frances Lincoln in the UK and National Geographic in the USA; 1998; for young children)

Aliens  (Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press USA, 1998; for children)

Marshall Children's Guide to Astronomy/Scholastic Encyclopedia of Space (Marshall Edition in UK and Scholastic in USA, 1998; co-author Simon Mitton; for children). Shortlisted for Rhone-Poulenc Junior science book prize, 1999.

Kingdom of the Sun (Frances Lincoln in the UK and National Geographic in the USA, 2001). English Association (UK) Award for best Children's Illustrated Books 2001, 4-11 yrs Key Stage 2 category.

Young Oxford Encyclopedia of Science: Stars and Planets (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Once Upon a Starry Night (Frances Lincoln and National Geographic, 2003)

Zodiac (Frances Lincoln, 2004)

Let’s Go to the Planets!(Oxford University Press, 2006)

The Planet Gods (This is a revised edition of Kingdom of the Sun: Frances Lincoln in the UK and National Geographic in the USA, 2008)