FONTI PRIMARIE
Opere di Alan Sillitoe:
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, London, Longman, 1958.
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, London, Flamingo, 1959.
- Key to the Door, London, Macmillan, 1961.
- The Ragman's Daughter, London, W. H. Allen , 1963.
- The Open Door, London, Grafton Books, 1989.
- Life Without Armour: An Autobiography, London, Flamingo, 1995.
- Birthday, London, Flamingo, 2001.
Articoli e interviste:
- ''Proletarian Novelists'', Books and Bookmen IV (August 1959), p. 13.
- ''The Pen was my Enemy'', Books and Bookmen IV (January 1959), p. 11.
- ''Both Sides of the Street'', in Stephen Spender, a cura di, The Writer's Dilemma, London, Oxford University Press, 1961, pp. 68-75.
- ''Poor People'', Anarchy IV (April 1964), pp. 124-129.
- Hennessy, Brendan, ''Interview with Alan Sillitoe'', Transatlantic Review (Winter/ Spring 1972), pp.108-113.
- Lefranc, M., ''Alan Sillitoe: An Interview'', Etudes Anglaises XXVI (1973), pp. 35-48.

FONTI SECONDARIE.
- Atherton, Stanley S., Alan Sillitoe: A Critical Assessment, London, W. H. Allen, 1979.
- Gerard, David, Alan Sillitoe: A Bibliography, London, Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988.
- Gindin, James, Post-war British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1963.
- Hanson, Gilian Mary, Understanding Alan Sillitoe, Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
- Hitchcock, Peter, Working-Class Fiction in Theory and Practice: A Reading of Alan Sillitoe, London, UMI Research Press, 1989.
- Penner, Richard Allen, Alan Sillitoe, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1972.
- Sawkins, John, The Long Apprenticeship: Alienation in the Early Works of Alan Sillitoe, Bern, Peter Lang AG, 2001.
- Veverka, Ronald D., Commitment as Art: A Marxist Critique of a Selection of Alan Sillitoe's Political Fiction, Uppsala, University of Uppsala Press, 1978.
Articoli e riviste:
- Albertazzi, Silvia, ''La 'Working-Class Novel' di Alan Sillitoe'', Spicilegio Modernio VII (1977), pp. 121-137.
- Craig, David, ''The Roots of Sillitoe's Fiction'', in Jeremy Hawthorn, a cura di, The British Working Class Novel in the Twentieth Century, London, Edward Arnold, 1984, pp. 95-110.
- Heinemann, Margot, ''Workers and Writers'', Marxism Today (April 1962), pp. 111-119.
- McDowell, Frederick P. W. , ''Self and Society: Alan Sillitoe's 'Key to the Door''', Critique VI (Spring 1963) pp.116-23.
- Nardella, Anna Ryan, ''The Existential Dilemmas of Alan Sillitoe's Working-Class Heroes'', Studies in the Novel V (1973), pp. 469-82.
- Osgerby, J.R., ''Alan Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning''', in G. R. Hibbord, a cura di, Renaissance and Modern Essays, London, Routledge, 1966, pp. 215-30.
- Penner, Richard Allen, ''Dantesque Allegory in Sillitoe's 'Key to the Door''', Renascence XX (Winter 1968), pp.78-85.
- Schlüter, Kurt, ''The Time and Life of Arthur Seaton in Alan Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning''', Anglia CI (1983), pp. 99-116.
- Taylor, Christopher, ''Realism and the Language of Realism in the Works of Alan Sillitoe'', in Mark Brady, Johan Dodds, Christopher Taylor, a cura di, Four Fits of Anger: Essays on the Angry Young Men, Udine, Campanotto, 1986, pp. 100-50.
- Walter Nicolas, ''Because He is a Man'', Anarchy (December1961), pp.289-95.
- Wilding Michael, ''Alan Sillitoe's Political Novels'', in Anderson, Don, e Stephen, Knight, a cura di, Cunning Exiles, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1975, pp. 129-165.
Volumi di interesse generale:
- Allsop, Kenneth, The Angry Decade, London, Peter Owen, 1969.
- Carinelli, Giuseppe, ''The Angry Young Men: Una Specie di Romanzo'', Annali della Facoltà di Lettere dell'Università di Macerata (1977), pp. 3-45.
- Chatman, Seymour, Storia e Discorso: La Struttura Narrativa nel Romanzo e nel Film, Parma, Pratiche Editrice, 1994.
- Davies, Alistar, e Saunders, Peter, ''Literature, Politics and Society'' in Sinfield, Alan, a cura di, The Context of English Literature: Society and Literature 1945-1970, London, Methuen, 1983, pp. 13-50.
- Eagleton, Mary, e Pierce, David, Attitudes to Class in the English Novel from Walter Scott to David Storey, London, Thames and Hudson, 1979.
- Genette, Gerard, Figure III: Discorso del Racconto, Torino, Einaudi, 1976.
- Gray, Nigel, The Silent Majority: A Study of the Working Class in Post-war British Fiction, London, Vision Press, 1973.
- Hoggart, Richard, Proletariato e Industria Culturale: Aspetti di Vita Operaia Inglese con particolare riferimento al Mondo della Stampa e dello Spettacolo, Harmondsworth, 1969, trad. a cura di, L. Curti, Roma, Officina, 1970. (Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life with special reference to Publications and Entertainments, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969)
- Lodge, David, The Art of Fiction, Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts, London, Penguin, 1997.
- Stevenson, S., The British Novel Since the Thirties, London, Betsford, 1990.
- Waugh, P., Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background 1960-'90, Oxford, OUP, 1995.