This list is meant to serve as a reference for books that focus, at least in part, on the American Football League, an AFL player, team, or league-related subject. I will add to it as older books are located, and new books published. Please feel free to contact me with possible additions.
| LEAGUE HISTORIES | ||||
| Title | Author(s) | Subject | Publisher | Date |
| The Foolish Club | Jim Acho | AFL | Grid Iron Press | 1997 |
| The $400,000 Quarterback or: The League that Came in from the Cold | Bob Curran | AFL | The MacMillan Company | 1965 |
| The American Football League; A Year-by-Year History, 1960-1969 | Ed Gruver | AFL | McFarland & Company, Inc. | 1997 |
| The Little League the Could; A History of the American Football League | Ken Rappoport | AFL | Taylor Trade Publishing | 2010 |
| The Other League; The Fabulous Story of the American Football League | Jack Horrigan and Mike Rathet | AFL | Follett Publishing Company | 1970 |
| If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em | Sal Maiorana | AFL | First Books Library | 2003 |
| Going Long | Jeff Miller | AFL | McGraw-Hill | 2003 |
| Remember the AFL: The Ultimate Fan’s Guide to the American Football League | Dave Steidel | AFL | Clerisy Press | 2008 |
| We Came of Age; A Picture History of the American Football League | Jack Orr | AFL | The Lion Press | 1969 |
| Touchdown! The Picture History of the American Football League | George Sullivan | AFL | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 1967 |
| When the Grass was Real; The Ten Best Years of Pro Football | Bob Carroll | AFL/NFL | Simon & Schuster | 1993 |
| The League; The Rise and Decline of the NFL | David Harris | AFL/NFL | Bantam Books | 1986 |
| America’s Game | Michael MacCambridge | AFL/NFL | Random House | 2004 |
| TEAM HISTORIES | ||||
| Title | Author(s) | Subject | Publisher | Date |
| Relentless; The Hard-Hitting History of Buffalo Bills Football | Sal Maiorana | Bills | Quality Sports Publications | 1995 |
| A View through the Lens of Robert L. Smith; The Buffalo Bills Photos 1960-1995 | Robert L. Smith | Bills | Western New York Wares Inc. | 1995 |
| Rockin’ the rockpile: The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League | Jeffrey Miller | Bills | ECW Press | 2007 |
| Barely Audible; A History of the Denver Broncos | Larry Gordon and Dick Burnell | Broncos | Graphic Impressions, Inc. | 1975 |
| Orange Madness; The Incredible Odyssey of the Denver Broncos | Woodrow Paide Jr. | Broncos | Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers | 1978 |
| Charging Through the AFL: Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers’ Football in the 1960s | Todd Tobias | Chargers | Turner Publishing Company | 2004 |
| Houston Oilers; The Early Years | Kevin Carroll | Oilers | Eakin Press | 2001 |
| Oiler Blues; The Story of Pro Football’s Most Frustrating Team | John Pirkle | Oilers | Sportline Publishing | 2000 |
| Loser Takes All; Bud Adams, Bad Football & Big Business | Ed Fowler | Oilers | Longstreet Press, Inc. | 1997 |
| From Cannon to Campbell | Mickey Herskowitz | Oilers | Gulf Coast Graphics, Inc. | 1979 |
| The New England Patriots; A Pictorial History | George McGuane | Patriots | JCP Corp of Virginia | 1980 |
| Tales from the Oakland Raiders | Tom Flores | Raiders | Sports Publishing, Inc. | 2003 |
| Pride & Poise | Jim McCullough | Raiders | Author House | 2006 |
| Winning it All; The Chiefs of the AFL | Joe McGuff | Texans/Chiefs | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | 1970 |
| Warpaths; The Illustrated History of the Kansas City Chiefs | Alan Hoskins | Texans/Chiefs | Taylor Publishing Company | 1999 |
| AFL to Arrowhead; Four Decades of Chiefs History and Trivia | Mark Stallard | Texans/Chiefs | Addax Publishing Group | 1999 |
| The Violence Game | Bob Curran | Titans/Jets | The MacMillan Company | 1966 |
| Countdown to Super Bowl | Dave Anderson | Titans/Jets | Random House | 1969 |
| Gang Green | Gerald Eskenazi | Titans/Jets | Simon & Schuster | 1998 |
| Crash of the Titans; The Early Years of the New York Jets and the AFL | Bill Ryczek | Titans/Jets | Total Sports Publishing | 2000 |
| The Long Pass | Lou Sahadi | Titans/Jets | The World Publishing Company | 1969 |
| Jets; Broadway’s 30-Year Guarantee | Daily News | Titans/Jets | Sports Publishing, LLC. | 1999 |
| SPECIAL SUBJECTS | ||||
| Title | Author(s) | Subject | Publisher | Date |
| AFL Dream Backfield | Howard Liss | AFL Offensive Stars | Cowles Book Company | 1969 |
| The Birth of the New NFL; How the 1966 NFL/AFL Merger Transformed Pro Football | Larry Felser | AFL/NFL Merger | The Lyons Press | 2008 |
| World Champion San Diego Chargers Strength Program, In and Out of Season | Sid Gillman and Alvin Roy | Chargers Strength Training Manual | Sid Gillman-Alvin Roy Publishing Co. Inc. | 1964 |
| Miami of Ohio; The Cradle of Coaches | Bob Kurz | Coaches | Hammer Graphics | 1983 |
| Ten-Gallon War; The NFL’s Cowboys, The AFL’s Texans and the Feud for Dallas’s Pro Football Future | John Eisenberg | Founding of Dallas Cowboys & Texans | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2012 |
| Miracle Year 1969: Amazing Mets and Super Jets | Bill Gutman | New York Sports – 1969 | Sports Publishing, LLC. | 2004 |
| When it Was Just a Game | Harvey Frommer | Super Bowl I | Taylor Trade Publishing | 2015 |
| The Game the Changed Pro Football | Stephen Hanks | Super Bowl III | Carol Publishing Group | 1989 |
| From Baltimore to Broadway; Joe, The Jets and the Super Bowl III Guarantee | Ed Gruver | Super Bowl III | Triumph Books | 2009 |
| The Uncrowned Champs; How the 1963 San Diego Chargers Would have Won the Super Bowl | Dave Steidel | 1963 San Diego Chargers | Carrel Books | 2015 |
| The Lost Super Bowls, 1960-1965: A Fictional Scrapbook | Tom Danyluk | Fictitious 1960-1965 Super Bowls | Mad Uke Publishing | 2018 |
| Beyond Broadway Joe; The Super Bowl Team Thar Changed Football | Bob Lederer | 1968 New York Jets | Dey St. | 2018 |
| 69 Chiefs; A Team, A Season, And the Birth of Modern Kansas City | Michael MacCambridge | 1969 Kansas City Chiefs | Andrews McMeel | 2019 |
| Mavericks, Money, and Men; The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football | Charles K. Ross | Integration in the AFL | Temple University Press | 2016 |
| BIOGRAPHIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | ||||
| Title | Author(s) | Subject | Publisher | Date |
| 106 Yards | Al Carmichael | Al Carmichael | C&C Publishing | 2006 |
| Just Win, Baby | Glenn Dickey | Al Davis | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 1991 |
| Slick; The Silver & Black Life of Al Davis | Mark Ribowsky | Al Davis | MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. | 1991 |
| Black Knight; Al Davis and His Raiders | Ira Simmons | Al Davis | Prima Publishing | 1990 |
| Just Win, Baby | Murray Olderman | Al Davis | Triumph Books | 2012 |
| Holy Toledo | Ken Korvach | Bill King | Wellstone Books | 2013 |
| Billy Cannon: A Long, Long Run | Charles DeGravelles | Billy Cannon | Louisiana State University Press | 2015 |
| A Miscellaneous Lawyer | Bob Baxley | Bob Baxley | Robert C. Baxley Press | 1999 |
| Two Yellows and a Blue; Inside the Locker Room: A Story of Pride, Pain and Pills | Bobby Brown | Bobby Brown | Inverness Press | 1982 |
| Kick, Rejection…and Win! | Booth Lusteg | G. Booth Lusteg | Publish America | 2001 |
| Tears & Cheers; Bud Adams: His Times, His Teams, His Tribe | Bud Adams & Mickey Herskowitz | Bud Adams | SouthComm Communications | 2010 |
| He Ain’t No Bum | Bum Phillips | Bum Phillips | Jordan and Company Publishers | 1979 |
| High for the Game | Chip Oliver | Chip Oliver | William Morrow and Company, Inc. | 1971 |
| The Cookie That Did Not Crumble | Chris Garbarino | Cookie Gilchrist | N/A | 2011 |
| Cowboy at the Mike | Curt Gowdy and Al Hirshberg | Curt Gowdy | Doubleday Publishing | 1966 |
| Kentucky Babe; The Babe Parilli Story | Dick Burdette | Babe Parilli | 2011 | |
| You Can’t Catch Sunshine | Don Maynard and Matthew Shepatin | Don Maynard | Triumph Books | 2010 |
| Tale of the Tape; A History of the Buffalo Bills from the Inside | Eddie Abramoski | Eddie Abramoski | Western New York Wares Inc. | 2002 |
| From Pads to Pallette | Ernie Barnes | Ernie Barnes | WRS Publishing | 1995 |
| Finding Frank; Full Circle in a Life Cut Short | Buzz Ponce | Frank Buncom | Buzz Ponce | 2013 |
| First Down and a Billion; The Funny Business of Pro Football | Gene Klein and David Fisher | Gene Klein | William Morrow and Company, Inc. | 1987 |
| What Have You Done Now, Eugene? | Gene Mingo, Carol & Glen Strickland | Gene Mingo | Universe, Inc. | 2012 |
| Blanda; Alive and Kicking | Wells Trombley | George Blanda | Nask Publishing | 1972 |
| They’re Playing my Game | Hank Stram and Lou Sahadi | Hank Stram | William Morrow and Company, Inc. | 1986 |
| The Public Calls it Sport | Harry Wismer | Harry Wismer | Prentice-Hall, Inc. | 1965 |
| Be My Guest | Conrad Hilton | Hilton Family | Fireside | 1994 |
| Jack Kemp; The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America | Fred Barnes and Morton Kondracke | Jack Kemp | Sentinel | 2015 |
| The Pain of Glory | Jim Otto | Jim Otto | Sports Publishing, Inc. | 1999 |
| A Proud American; The Autobiography of Joe Foss | Joe Foss | Joe Foss | Pocket Books | 1992 |
| Namath | Mark Kriegel | Joe Namath | Penguin Group, Inc. | 2004 |
| I Can’t Wait Until Tomorrow | Joe Namath | Joe Namath | Random House | 1969 |
| Joe Namath; All The Way, My Life in Four Quarters | Joe Namath | Joe Namath | Little, Brown and Company | 2019 |
| Taming the Bull; The John “Bull” Bramlett Story | John Bramlett and Tula Jeffries | John Bramlett | Thomas Nelson Publishers | 1989 |
| Don’t Hit Him, He’s Dead | John McDonough | John McDonough | Celestial Arts | 1978 |
| Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer | Johnny Sample | Johnny Sample | The Dial Press | 1970 |
| Lamar Hunt and the Founding of the American Football League | Tom Richey | Lamar Hunt | Mercury Print Productions | 2009 |
| Lamar Hunt | David A.F. Sweet | Lamar Hunt | Triumph Books | 2010 |
| Lamar Hunt; A Life in Sports | Michael MacCambridge | Lamar Hunt | Andrews McMeel Publishing | 2012 |
| Fourth and One | Lee Grosscup | Lee Grosscup | Harper & Row, Publishers | 1963 |
| Len Dawson; Pressure Quarterback | Len Dawson and Lou Sahadi | Len Dawson | Cowles Book Company | 1970 |
| Bump and Run; The Days and Nights of a Rookie Quarterback | Marty Domres and Robert Smith | Marty Domres | RobertBantam Books, Inc. | 1971 |
| Martyball! The Life and Triumphs of Marty Schottenheimer, the Coach who Really Did Win it All | Marty Schottenheimer and Jeffrey Flanagan | Marty Schottenheimer | Sports Publishing, Inc. | 2012 |
| Rememberin’… Life in the Trenches | Mike Current | Mike Current | 1st Books | 2002 |
| Violence Every Sunday; The Story of a Professional Football Coach | Mike Holovak | Mike Holovak | Coward-McCann, Inc. | 1967 |
| On The Line | Norm Evans and Edwin pope | Norm Evans | Fleming H. Revell Company | 1976 |
| Otis Taylor: The Need to Win | Otis Taylor and Mark Stallard | Otis Taylor | Sports Publishing, Inc. | 2003 |
| PB: The Paul Brown Story | Paul Brown and Jack Clary | Paul Brown | Atheneum | 1979 |
| What’s New, Harry? The Best of Buffalo Courier-Express Columnist Phil Ranallo | Paul Ranallo | Phil Ranallo | No Frills Buffalo | 2015 |
| Nothing to Kick About | Pete Gogolak | Pete Gogolak | Dodd, Mead & Company | 1973 |
| Rozelle; Czar of the NFL | Jeff Davis | Pete Rozelle | McGraw-Hill | 2008 |
| Sid Gillman; Father of the Passing Game | Josh Katzowitz | Sid Gillman | Clerisy Press | 2012 |
| The Tobin Rote Story | Fred W. Huntington | Tobin Rote | N/A | 1964 |
| Sunday’s Fools | Tom Beer | Tom Beer | Houghton Mifflin Company | 1974 |
| Fire in the Iceman | Tom Flores and Frank Cooney | Tom Flores | Bonus Books, Inc. | 1992 |
| Guts, God and the Super Bowl | Zola Levitt | Tom Goode | Zondervan | 1974 |
| Love, Life, Music and Football | Tony DiPardo, Patti DiPardo, Bill Althaus | Tony DiPardo | Sports Publishing, Inc. | 2005 |
| Off Guard | Walt Sweeney and Bill Swank | Walt Sweeney | Silver Threads | 2012 |
| The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank | Paul Zimmerman | Weeb Ewbank | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1974 |
