Published Big Year Books
- Wild America (1955) by Roger Tory Peterson & James Fisher
- Call Collect, Ask for Birdman (1980) by James M. Vardaman
- Looking for the Wild (1986) by Lyn Hancock
- The Loonatic Journals (1987) by Steven Perry
- Birding's Indiana Jones: A Chaser's Diary (1990) by Sandy Komito
- The Feather Quest (1992) by Pete Dunne
- A Year for the Birds (1995) by William B. Rydell, Jr.
- Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand (1997) by Kenn Kaufman
- I Came, I Saw, I Counted (1999) by Sandy Komito
- Chasing Birds Across Texas: A Birding Big Year (2003) by Mark T. Adams
- The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (2004) by Mark Obmascik (later the basis for a 2011 comedy film distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul (2005) by Scott Weidensaul
- The Big Twitch (2005) by Sean Dooley (an Australian "Big Year")
- The Biggest Twitch: Around the World in 4,000 Birds (2010) by Alan Davies and Ruth Miller
- Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year (2011) by Lynn E. Barber
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