CASTEN, Rick. Nuclear structure from a simple perspective. Oxford university press, 2000.
SUHONEN, Jouni. From nucleons to nucleus: concepts of microscopic nuclear theory. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.
Advised literature
RING, Peter; SCHUCK, Peter. The nuclear many-body problem. Springer Science & Business Media, 2004.978-3-540-21206-5.
ROWE, David J.; WOOD, John L. Fundamentals of nuclear models: foundational models. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010.978-3-540-21206-5.
ROWE, David J. Nuclear collective motion: models and theory. World Scientific, 2010. ISBN 978-9812790644.