The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

The Geologic Setting of the John Day Country, Grants County, Oregon Thomas P. Thayer 1972	The Geologic Setting of the John Day Country, Grants County, Oregon Thomas P. Thayer 1990	cover only Expedition ito the John Day River in 1878 Charles H. Sternberg 2001	cover only John Day Formation: Turtle Cove Member Joshua X. Samuels 2013
cover only A Closer Look at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument Megan Wilkins 2017