Although this is by no means a definitive list by any means it represents a beginning into research about Leo� Jan��ek. The various articles in the New Grove (2nd ed.) on Jan��ek are extensive and excellent. Articles in opera programmes and journals can be enlightening, as well as the disc notes to the various recommended recordings on this site. Sometimes the scholarship can be more up to date, due to obvious costs in producing larger volumes of articles or texts. Of course the most extensive list of publications in the English language are by John Tyrrell. Of all these, the reader and researcher may wish to start with Jan��ek�s Operas: A Documentary Account (London: Faber, 1992), which charts the compositional progress of the operas right to their first production and beyond through contemporary written evidence - both by the composer and those around him.

I have also included some of the better guides to the Czech Republic, plus other literature which may be of interest.

As many of the books about Jan��ek frequently go out of print, you may need to try some second hand suppliers:

A general supplier for the world is www.abebooks.com
In the UK try Rosemary Dooley's excellent service at www.booksonmusic.co.uk

Ed. Simeone, Nigel, John Tyrrell & Alena Nemcova	Jan�cek's works :a catalogue of the music and writings of Leo� Jan�cek (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Beckerman, Michael & Glen Bauer	Studies in Czech Music: Jan�Ä�ek and Czech Music: Proceedings of The International Conference (St Louis, 1988), Vol. 1 (New York: Stuyvesant & Pendragon Press, 1995)	Â	For UK Distribution Try Here
Beckerman, Michael	Jan��ek and His World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
ÄŒapek, Karel	Four Plays R. U. R. / The Insect Play / The Makropulos Case / The White Plague (Loneon: Methuen, 1999)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Cheek, Timothy	Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2001)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Cheek, Timothy	The Jan��ek Opera Libretti: Translations and Pronunciation: Př�hody Li�ky Bystrou�ky (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2003)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Cheek, Timothy	The Jan��ek Opera Libretti: Translations and Pronunciation: K�ťa Kabanov� (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2004)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Chisholm, Eric	The Operas of Leo� Jan�Ä�ek (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971)	Â	Out of Print
Ewans, Michael	Jan�Ä�ek�s Tragic Operas (London: Faber, 1977)	Â	Out of Print
Friel, Brian	Performances (London: Faber, 2005) Available in USA in Gallery Press edition (also in UK)	Â	Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tr. Heaney, Seamus	Diary of One Who Vanished (London: Faber, 1999)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Ed. Holden, Amanda	The New Penguin Opera Guide (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 2001)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe
Jan��ek, Leo�	Jenůfa Vocal Score (New York: Dover Publications, 2003)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Ed. John, Nicholas	Jenůfa/Katya Kabanova: Leo� Jan�Ä�ek (London 1985)	Â	Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Kundera, Milan	Testaments Betrayed  (London: Faber, 2004 edition)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tausky, Vilem	Jan��ek: Leaves from his Life (Pro Am Music Resources, 1989)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tyrrell, John	'The cathartic slow waltz and other final conventions in Jan�Ä�ek�s operas� in Music and Theatre: Esays in honour of Winton Dean (ed. Nigel Fortune) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)	Â	Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tyrrell, John	Czech Opera (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Ed. & Tr. Tyrrell, John	Intimate Letters: Leo� Jan��ek to Kamila St�sslov� (London: Faber, 1994)		Out of print in UK Try Here for UK Click for US
Ed. & Tr. Tyrrell, John	Intimate Letters: Leo� Jan��ek to Kamila St�sslov� Paperback Edition (London: Faber, 2005)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe (see hardback for US edition)
Tyrrell, John	Jan��ek�s Operas: A Documentary Account (London: Faber, 1992)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tyrrell, John	Jan��ek: Years of a Life: (1854-1914) The Lonely Blackbird v. 1 (London: Faber, 2006)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Tyrrell, John	Leo� Jan��ek: K�t�a Kabanov� (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Ed. & Tr. Tyrrell, John	My life with Jan��ek: The Memoirs of Zdenka Jan��kov� (London: Faber, 1998)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Ed. Wingfield, Paul	Jan��ek Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Wingfield, Paul	The Glagolitic Mass (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Zemanov�, Mirka	Uncollected Essays on Music (London: Marion Boyars, 1992)Â		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US
Zemanov�, Mirka	Jan��ek (London: John Murray, 2002)		Currently Available Click for UK / Europe Click for US