• Stephen F. Tonkin's Practical Amateur Spectroscopy introduces spectroscopy in Astronomy and included a section of a spectrometer design used in exoplanet detection
• Michel Mayer and Pierre-Yves Frei's book New Worlds in the Cosmos discusses their first exoplanet discovery and introduces the concepts of exoplanet detection

The majority of information regarding exoplanets is in the form of websites:

• The mother of all Exoplanet websites - Exoplanet.org
• For the amateur looking to contribute his or her telescope to the cause, there is Transitsearch.org (sporting one of the coolest logos I have seen)
• NASA Origins Project
• The Anglo-Australian Planet Search
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - a summary of all current progress
• Microlensing Planet Search Project
• Planet Homepage - Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork
• NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (concepts)
• Spectrashift.com - a group of talented amateurs using home-built spectrometers for planet searching
• The Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Programmes
• PLANETPOL
• DARWIN
• PlanetQuest (NASA)
• The Paris Observatory has recently translated their Exoplanet page, and it contains some nice Java applets

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