There are many books that cover the material included in this course, and some of them are listed below.

• Terzaghi, K., Peck, R. B. and Mesri, G. (1996), "Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice",
  Third Edition, John Wiley, New York.
  
• Mitchell, J. K. (1993), "Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour",
  Second Edition, John Wiley, New York.
  
• Ranjan, G. and Rao, A.S.R. (2000), "Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics",
  Second Edition, New Age International, New Delhi.
  
• Gulhati, S.K. and Datta, M. (2005), "Geotechnical Engineering",
  Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.