For more information on cultured pearl history, processing, and pearl sales techniques, please refer to the reading list below, compiled by the Cultured Pearl Information Center. Click on the book title to search Amazon.com. A connection to the Internet is required.

Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-Fishing: Origins to the Age of Discoveries (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 224) by R. A. Donkin; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1998.

The Black Pearls of Tahiti, by Jean-Paul Lintilhac, English translation by J.L. Sherman; Tahiti: Royal Tahitian, 1985.

The Book of the Pearl, by George Frederick Kunz and Charles Hugh Stevenson; New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993.

Cultured Pearls: The First Hundred Years, by Andy Muller; Switzerland: Golay Buchel Group, 1997.

The Pearl Book: The Definitive Buying Guide, by Antoinette L. Matlins, PG; Vermont: Gemstone Press, 1996.

The Pearl Buying Guide, by Renee Newman; Los Angeles: International Jewelry Publications, 1994.

Pearls: Natural, Cultured and Imitation, by Alexander E. Farn; Oxford: Butterworth-Heinmann Ltd., 1991.

Pearls: Ornament and Obsession, by Kristin Joyce and Shellei Addison; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Pearls: Their Origin, Treatment and Indentification, by Jean Taburiaux; Pennsylvania: Chilton Book Company, 1985.

Tahiti: The Magic of the Black Pearl, by Paule Salomon & Michel Roudnitska, Michel; Papeete: Tahiti Perles (Papeete) & Times Edition, Singapore, 1987.