Chris Burden: Extreme Measures. New York: Rizzoli, 2013. Essays by Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni, Thomas Crow, Amelia Jones, Guy Nordenson, and Johanna Burton, and artists Oscar Tuazon, Matthew Day Jackson, and Tom Marioni.
Chris Burden. Newcastle, England: Locus + Publishing Ltd., 2005. Essays by Fred Hoffman, Paul Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, and Robert Storr.
Chris Burden. Stockholm, Sweden: Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, 1999. In Swedish and English.
Chris Burden: A Twenty Year Survey. Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988.
Chris Burden: When Robots Rule- The Two Minute Airplane Factory. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1999. Text by Frances Morris, Chris Burden, Nicholas Serota, Tom Horton.
Noever, Peter, ed. Chris Burden: Beyond The Limits. Vienna, Austria: Museum of Applied Arts, 1996. Text by Donald Huspit, Johannes Lothar Schroder.
Perrin, Frank. Chris Burden, Paris: Blocnotes, 1995.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Performance, Chris Burden and the limits of art." The New Yorker. May 2007.