(These books and patterns are from my own collection.  I will  answer questions about them but they are not for sale.)

Aarlan Journal 31, No 9629

In several languages including English. Many sweater and vest patterns with matching socks.  Argyles, cables, color stranded, embroider, many sizes.

Some easy patterns, but most aren't.  Patterns are not as clearly written as I'd like.  Nice penguin chart.

Bernat

Handicrafter Book No. 36, 1953

40 patterns for men  (sports and gaming themes) Several matching vests. Golf club covers.  Straight and DPNs, fingering weight, mostly intarsia with 2 cable patterns, top down, size 1 and 2 needles..

Hard but an amazing collection of charts.

Breitner, Carol

Los Lobe Hose: Tiny Sock Earrings

1 pattern for earrings or ornament

Easy, if you can knit with 1.25 mm needles.

Buchanan, Rita

Socks: a Spin-Off special publication for knitters and spinners

56 pages.  Color and black and white photos. Entrelac, lace, double knit, cables, stranded. Various sizes of yarn and needles. Adult sizes.

Easy to hard, most are medium.

Bucilla

Hand Knit Socks for Men, Women, Children, Vol. 340

53 patterns, 35 pages. Black and white photos, 4 pages color photos including covers. Top-down. Various sizes of yarn, needles and pattern sizes. Two-needle socks, argyles, cables.

Easy to hard (but more of them are hard!)

Bush, Nancy

Folk Socks

120 pages.  The first half of the book covers how socks are traditionally knit in the UK and Europe.  Second half has patterns based on classic ones from these countries.  Presents toe and heel options.  Color and black and white photos and drawings.

Easy to Hard.  A book to read for inspiration and to learn techniques, as well as to knit from.

Bush, Nancy

Knitting on the Road: sock patterns for the traveling knitter

17 patterns, 96 pages. Starts with basics of sock knitting.  DPNs in 2m to 3.25 mm, fingering and sport yarn. Color stranded, cables, lace, Christmas sock.  Spiral binding on a tall book. Color photos.

Medium

Dominski, Mary

Various patterns

Kaleidoscope Socks (Color stranded and slip stitch) Pyramid Power, Mahjongg, Ribble Cuff, Painted Desert, Trellis and Cobblestones, Ring Around the Rockies, Elite Feet #5 cable and slip stitch Trafalgar Square. Pet Socks in stranded and intarsia with charts for dogs, cat, rabbit, llamas and sheep. Sport weight yarn, 3.25 or 4 mm DPNs, top-down.  Sized for adults.

Medium (except for the intarsia used in the Pet Socks) the designs are very nice.

Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla

Simple Socks: plain and fancy

112 pages, black and white drawings.  Detailed instructions on top-down and toe-up socks.  Discussion of use of contrasting colors in socks, color stranding, motfis, zigzag intarsia and true intarsia.

No real patterns but some of the best writing on how to knit more complicated socks.

Kempen, Sandra

Sandi's Favorite Sock Pattern Using Cascade Fixation

1 basic pattern and 3 variations:  lace, texture and stranded

Medium

Lindquist, Kajsa

Scandinavian Snow Sets: caps, mittens, gloves, after-ski boots and slipper socks, Vol. 5

Children and adult sizes. Stranded color work, hard.

Madl, Joseph

Foot Notes, socks to make your feet dance

13 patterns for socks. 34 pages. Color photos Sized for adults.  Uses 3.25mm DPNs and Philosopher's Wool.  All Fair Isle patterns except for one Aran kilt hose.

Based on a basic top-down pattern. Medium to hard, but I think I could manage all but the kilt hose right now..

Misegades, Katherine

The Tongue River Farm Sock Collection

6 patterns, 16 pages. Sport weight yarn, 2.75 mm needles. Color stranded. Black and white photos and diagrams. Top-down.

Hard. Designed to be knit with Tongue River Icelandic wool.  I look forward to being skilled enough to knit these!

Neatby, Lucy

Cool Socks, Warm Feet: six exceptional sock patterns for printed yarns

6 patterns, 128 pages, spiral binding, color photos. Variegated yarn.  Basics and special tips for knitting socks.  DPNs or circular needles. Fingering weight yarn, size 2mm to 2.75mm needles. Adult and ornament sizes.

Easy to medium.  This is the book I wish I'd had after I was comfortable making a very simple sock.  Interesting patterns using variagated, self-patterning yarns.

Neatby, Lucy

Fiesta Feet

One pattern. Fingering weight yarn. Sideways garter stitch cuff, shell bobble, backwards knitting, stranded knittting. Top-down, solid and varigated yarn.

Fairly hard.

Painter, Jima Lee

Tootsie's Footsies using Cascade Fixation Yarn

1 basic pattern with 3 variations: Lace, slip stitch, anklet

Easy to medium.

Pence, Katherine

... And a Time to Knit Stockings

56 pages, black and white diagrams and photos. 15 sock patterns and a replaceable heel. Color stranded, cables, lace. Fingering to DK weight yarn, various size needles.

Hard.  I expect it will take another year of knitting before I'm ready to try these.

Rowley, Elaine (editor)

Socks, Socks, Socks

70 patterns, 114 pages, color photos. Various weights of yarn, sizes of needles, and sizes of patterns. All common sock knitting techniques and a few very uncommon ones.

Easy to extremely hard.  Great book for inspiration to get out of a sock knitting rut.  See below for a collection of pattern reviews.  

Socks! Digest

Jan, March and Sept 2003 issues. Various weights of yarn, sizes of needles, and sizes of patterns.

Mostly easy to medium patterns, at least in these 2 issues.

Stahl

Socka Nr. 9, 20 pages of text and diagrams, 4 pages of color photos.

46 patterns, mostly for socks. Color stranded work, embroidery, slip stitches, cables, and variegated yarns combined with solids.  German and English text.  Adult and children sizes.

Easy to medium, as soon as I'm ready to tackle more complex color stranded, I'll start here..

Stahl

Socka Nr. 20, 24 pages text and diagrams, 4 pages color photos

33 patterns for socks, matching hats and mittens, a crocheted bag. Color stranded work, slip stitches, cables, and variegated yarns combined with solids.  German and English text.  Adult and children sizes.  Size 2.5mm and 3 mm DPNs.

Socks are worked on a basic top-down pattern that is explained in detail.  There are a few easy patterns and medium, but most are hard.

Tatum, Dara

Socks & Circs!

How to knit socks using  two circular needles, toe up or top down, one or two socks at a time. Also how to knit a top-down sock on one 32" or 40" circular.

I don't know why my favorite sock knitting method (one sock on one 24" circ, toe-up) isn't included.

Zilboorg, Anna

Fancy Feet: traditional knitting patterns of Turkey

128 pages, color photos. Toe-up, generic sock pattern and 45 charted patterns and 8 sole patterns. Color stranded.

Medium to hard. Great charted patterns that I'm looking forward to trying!

Zimmerman, Elizabeth

Wool Gathering, #44, Sept 96

One sock and one mitten pattern, 12 pages.  Black and white photos. Top-down, knee-high  Form-fitted-Arch Stockings in an Aran and Color Pattern versions, Convertible Top/Diagonal Thumb Mittens,

Medium to hard. Looking forward to trying the form fitted arch on socks.

White Buffalo

From Head to Toe, White Buffalo 105

slipper socks with matching hats, plain and stranded, adult and children sizes.

Easy to medium

Bartlett, Roxana

Slip-stitch Knitting

Detailed instructions on how to do slip-stich knitting, One sock pattern:  Evening of Falling Stars Socks, sport weight, 3.25 and 2.75 DPNs, top-down, solid and variegated yarn. This pattern in also in Interweave Knits, Fall 1997.

Medium

Feitelson, Ann

The Art of Fair Isle Knitting

Several pages on how the author reproduced FI socks knit in the 1920s. Includes pattern.

Very hard, 9 colors in some rows.

Knox, Patty

New Directions in Fair Isle Knitting

baby bootees, child's slipper socks, adult legwarmers. In modern Fair Isle

Many of the other patterns in the book could be adapted to socks.  Not very hard Fair Isle.

Ligon, Linda

Homespun Handknit

8 socks, also caps, mittens and gloves.  Adult, child, Christmas and ornament.

Easy to medium. I want to try one of the variegated and solid combo patterns.

Ling, Anne-Maj

Two-End Knitting

Detailed instructions on how to do twined knitting.

Basic two-end knitting sock pattern.  Hard.

Williams, Joyce

Latvian Dreams: knitting from weaving charts

Basic patterns and variations for stranded, top-down and toe-up socks.  Several sock patterns that match sweaters and other tops.

Hard, great charts.

Zimmermann, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

One chapter is on the refootable Moccasin Socks

Very enjoyable to read, don't know how well the sock knits.

 Zimmermann, Elizabeth

Knitting Without Tears

 Several pages on the basics of sock knitting, German, afterthought  and conventional heels, 2 needle slippers

 Easy and essential for sock knitters.

Appleby, Jennifer

Uptown Boot Socks

Interweave Knits, Winter 2003

Adult. Cables. Top-down. Medium.

Bush, Nancy

Ute Socks

Interweave Knits, Fall 1999

Top-down, Adult. Sport weight, 2mm needles, stranded

Crawford-Strong, Gerdine

Strong-heel Socks

Knitter's Fall 2003

Seamless diamond socks (aka Regent's interlocked diamonds and Bucilla's no bobbin socks)  and a new heel.  The magazine says these are easy, but I don't understand them yet, so my rating is  medium to hard.

Clark, Evelyn

Waving Lace Socks

Interweave Knits, Spring 2004

Adult. Lace. Medium.

Gaddy, Julie

Treasure Pocket Socks

Knitter's, Summer 2001

Adult. Top down, easy.

Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla

Eastern European Footlets

Interweave Knits Winter 2003

Adult. Intarsia in the round, toe-up. Hard.

Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla

His-Her Crew and Knee Socks

Interweave Knits, Spring 2002

Adult, toe-up, short row toe and heel.

Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla

Love Stamp Socks

Interweave Knits, Fall 2003

 Adult. Intarsia in the round. Hard, but I can't wait to give it a try!

Gibson-Roberts, Priscilla

Priscilla's Dream Socks

Interweave Knits, Fall 2000

 Old Norwegian Cast-On, adapting the pattern to different gauge or size, short row toe, top-down

Kay, Donna

Holiday Stocking

Interweave Knits, Winter 1999/2000

Color stranded Christmas stocking. Medium.

Knits Staff

Stocking Stuffers

Interweave Knits, Winter 1998

Basic pattern for Christmas stockings and 8 variations. Cables, stranded, spiral, duplicate stitch, easy to medium.

 Luters, Ginger

Swatch Your Step

Knitter's, Summer 2003

 Modular knitting with mitered rectangles.  Hard.

Moss, Jean

Mayan Socks

Interweave Knits, Spring 1998

Adult, cotton, working invisible seams, plaited edge. Two color cast on, intarsia and color stranded. Hard.

Petrini, Marcy

Knitted, Felted Slippers

Interweave Knits, Winter 1998

Easy felted slippers if you swatch and test the felting before knitting.

Shangold, Judith

Regal Stockings

Knitter's, Summer 2001

Fair Isle. Designed to be knit on 16" circular needles, Two Christmas stockings, sawtooth cuffs, medium to hard.

Soucy, Diane

Short & Simple

Knitter's, Spring 1997

Baby socks. Easy.

Tully, Kennita

Untraditional Baby Set

Knitter's, Summer 2001

Socks sized for 8/18 months and 12/24 months. Easy to medium.

Young, Kaleigh

Sock-Monkey Styles

Knitter's, Winter 1999

Adult. Top-down. Easy. Matching mittens, scarf, hat.

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Gibson, Judy

Socks in Print

List of patterns in various magazines, techniques and corrections.  Includes a link to the publisher's errata list. Very nice.

Gibson, Judy

Socks, Socks, Socks book report

Wingate, Catherine

Covers ways to knit sock heels and references to where the techniques are described.