List of books about K2

The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the Karakorum Range between Pakistan and China, listed by expedition date:

1887 - British - Younghusband
 * Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, 1896, (Yakushi Y27)

1892 - British - Conway
 * Martin Conway, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas, 1894, (Yakushi C336a)
 * Oscar Eckenstein, The Karakorams and Kashmir Himalayas, 1896, (Yakushi E10)

1902 - International - Eckenstein and Crowley
 * Charlie Buffet, Pionier am K2 - Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, 2012
 * Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1969
 * Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod, Six Mois dans l'Himalaya, le Karakorum et l'Hindu-Kush., 1904, (Yakushi J17), (🇫🇷 edition only)

1909 - 🇮🇹 Italian - Luigi Amedeo
 * Filippo De Filippi, La spedizione nel Karakoram e nell'Imalaia occidentale, 1912, (Yakushi F71a), (🇮🇹 edition)
 * Filippo De Filippi, Karakorum and Western Himalaya, 1912, (Yakushi F71b), ( / (🇺🇸 edition)
 * Mirella Tenderini and Michael Shandrick, The Duke of Abruzzi: An Explorer's Life, 1997

1929 - 🇮🇹 Italian - Aimone di Savoia-Aosta
 * Aimone di Savoia-Aosta and Ardito Desio, La Spedizione Geografica Italiana al Karakoram, 1936, (Yakushi S670), (🇮🇹 edition only)

1937 - British - Shipton
 * Eric Shipton, Blank on the map, 1938, (Yakushi S432)

1938 American Karakoram expedition - 🇺🇸 American - Houston
 * Charles Houston and Bob Bates, Five Miles High, 1939, (Yakushi B165)

1939 American Karakoram expedition - 🇺🇸 American - Wiessner
 * Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66)
 * Fritz Wiessner, K2, Tragödien und Sieg am Zweithöchsten Berg der Erde, 1955, (Yakushi W152), (🇩🇪 edition only)
 * Jennifer Jordan, The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2, 2010

1953 American Karakoram expedition - 🇺🇸 American - Houston
 * Charles Houston and Bob Bates, K2, The Savage Mountain, 1954, (Yakushi H429a)
 * Charles Houston, Bob Bates and George Bell, K2, 8611m, 1954, (Yakushi H430), (🇫🇷 edition only)

1954 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2 - 🇮🇹 Italian - Desio
 * Mohammad Ata-Ullah, Citizen of Two Worlds, 1960, (Yakushi A284)
 * Walter Bonatti, The Mountains of My Life, 2001
 * Walter Bonatti, Processo al K2, 1985, (Yakushi B453), (🇮🇹 edition)
 * Walter Bonatti, K2. La verità. 1954-2004, 2005, (🇮🇹 edition)
 * Achille Compagnoni, Uomini sul K2, 1958, (Yakushi C328), (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Achille Compagnoni, Tricolore sul K2, 1965, (Yakushi C329), (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Achille Compagnoni, K2: conquista italiana tra storia e memoria, 2004, (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Ardito Desio, Ascent of K2. Second Highest Peak in the World, 1955, (Yakushi D167b), ( edition)
 * Ardito Desio, Libro Bianco, 1956, (Yakushi D168), (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Mario Fantin, Sogno Visuto, 1958, (Yakushi F10), (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Lino Lacedelli and Giovanni Cenacchi, K2: The Price of Conquest, 2006, ( edition)
 * Robert Marshall, K2. Lies and Treachery, 2009

1975 - 🇺🇸 American - Whittaker
 * Galen Rowell, In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, 1977, (Yakushi R366)

1978 - 🇺🇸 American - Whittaker
 * Cherie Bremer-Kamp / Cherie Bech, Living on the Edge, 1987, (Yakushi B558)
 * Rick Ridgeway, The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2, 1980, (Yakushi R216)

1979 - 🇫🇷 French - Mellet
 * Bernard Mellet, K2. La victoire suspendu, 1980, (Yakushi M307), (🇫🇷 edition only)

1979 - International - Messner
 * Reinhold Messner and Alessandro Gogna, K2, Mountain of Mountains, 1981, (Yakushi M340c), ( edition)

1986
 * John Barry, K2, Savage Mountain, Savage Summer, 1987, (Yakushi B135)
 * Benoît Chamoux, Le Vertige de l'Infini, 1988, (Yakushi C125), (🇫🇷 edition only)
 * Jim Curran, K2, Triumph and Tragedy., 1987, (Yakushi C405a)
 * Anna Czerwińska, Groza wokół K2, 1990, (Yakushi C420), (🇵🇱 edition only)
 * Kurt Diemberger, The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny, 1991, (Yakushi D234d), ( edition)

1993 - 🇺🇸 American / 🇨🇦 Canadian - Allison
 * Jim Haberl, K2, Dreams and Reality, 1994

2008
 * Graham Bowley, No way down - Life and death on K2, 2010
 * Marco Confortola, Giorni di ghiaccio. Agosto 2008. La tragedia del K2, 2009, (🇮🇹 edition)
 * Damien O'Brien, The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell - His Life & His Death on K2, 2012
 * Wilco van Rooijen, Surviving K2, 2010
 * Freddie Wilkinson, One Mountain Thousand Summits, 2010
 * Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan, Buried in the Sky, 2012
 * Pat Falvey and Pemba Gyalje Sherpa, The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2's Deadliest Days, 2013

General literature on 'K2'
 * Fulvio Campiotti, K2, 1954, (Yakushi C36), (🇮🇹 edition only)
 * Jim Curran, K2, The Story of the Savage Mountain, 1995
 * Kurt Diemberger and Roberto Mantovani, K2. Challenging the sky, 1995
 * Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, 2001
 * Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, 2008
 * Dušan Jelinčič, Zvezdnate noči (Starry Nights), 2006
 * Jennifer Jordan, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, 2005
 * Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, 1997
 * Kenneth Mason, Abode of Snow, 1955, (Yakushi M214a), ( edition)
 * Bernadette McDonald, Brotherhood of the Rope: The biography of Charles Houston, 2007
 * Reinhold Messner, K2 Chogori. La grande montagna, 2004, (🇮🇹 edition)
 * Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, 2007
 * Richard Sale, The Challenge of K2. A History of the Savage Mountain., 2011
 * Mustansar Hussain Tarar, K2 Kahani, (in Urdu), 1994
 * Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks, 2007
 * Ed Viesturs, K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain, Aug 2010
 * Mick Conefrey, The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent, April 2015