Our digest of the best books on qualitative research.

Qualitative research in general

πŸ“— An Introduction to Qualitative Research (7th edition)
By Uwe Flick | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023; Formats: ebook to buy/rent, paperback, hardcover
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632 pages; Foundations of qualitative research; Research design; Verbal data; Data beyond talk; Qualitative data analysis; Grounding, writing and outlook

πŸ“— Qualitative research: A guide to design and implementation (4th edition)
By Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Sharan B. Merriam | San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2016

πŸ“— Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners
By Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013

πŸ“— Doing Interviews: 2 (2nd edition)
By Svend Brinkmann & Steinar Kvale | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018;

Methodology

πŸ“— Qual-Online: The Essential Guide: What every researcher needs to know about conducting and moderating interviews via the web
By Jennifer Dale, Susan Abbott | Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2014

πŸ“— Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design – Choosing Among Five Approaches (5th edition)
By John W. Creswell and Cheryl N. Poth | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024; Formats: ebook, paperback
552 pages

πŸ“— Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research (5th edition)
By Richard A. Krueger, Mary Anne Casey | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014

πŸ“— Mastering Focus Groups and Depth Interviews: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Roger A. Straus | Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2020

πŸ“— Moderating to the Max
By Jean Bystedt, Siri Lynn, and Deborah Potts | Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2011

πŸ“— Secrets of a Master Moderator
by Naomi Henderson | Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2015

πŸ“— Mr. Online’s Playbook
By Jeff Walkowski | Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., 2023
178 pages. Content: Section 1 The Fundamentals; Section 2 Selling Online Qualitative; Section 3 General Design Considerations; Section 4 Recruitment; Section 5 Discussion Guides; Section 6 Observer Management; Section 7 Moderation; Section 8 Analysis

Data Analysis

πŸ“— Analyzing Qualitative Data (2nd edition)
By Graham R Gibbs | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018; Formats: ebook, paperback
Book website;
Content: The nature of qualitative analysis; Data preparation; Writing; Thematic coding and categorizing; Analyzing biographical, narrative and discursive elements; Comparative analysis; Analytic quality and ethics; Getting started with computer-assisted qualitative data analysis; Searching and other analytic activities using software; Putting it all together

πŸ“— Qualitative Data Analysis: Practical Strategies
By Pat Bazeley | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020; Formats: ebook, paperback
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πŸ“— The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Fourth Edition)
By Johnny SaldaΓ±a | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021; Formats: ebook, paperback

πŸ“— Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo (2nd edition)
By Kristi Jackson, Patricia Bazeley | SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019; Formats: ebook, paperback
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376 pages. Content: Where to begin? Designing an NVivo project; Coding foundations; Advanced coding; Cases, classifications and comparisons; Surveys and mixed methods; Querying data; Literature reviews and PDF files; Working with multimedia files; Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and web pages; Teamwork; Moving on – further resources

πŸ“— Qualitative Data Analysis with ATLAS.ti (3rd edition)
By Susanne Friese| SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019; Formats: ebook, paperback
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