The following are books recommended by the Georgia Master Beekeeping Program.
- First Lessons in Beekeeping by Dr. Keith Delaplane
- The Buzz about Bees: The Biology of a Superorganism by Jürgen Tautz
- Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
- Wisdom of the Hive by Thomas D. Seeley
- The Biology of the Honey Bee by Mark Winston
- The Bees in your Backyard by J.S. Wilson & O. Messinger Carril