Books in and about Taiwanese
There are a lot of books out there about the language, but if you don't read Chinese, your options are much narrower. Books in this list which require literacy in Chinese are marked with a character symbol. Works which are particularly recommended will have a star by their entry.
There are quite a few books listed here, so to help you navigate they are divided into categories:
Textbooks
Southern Hokkien: An Introduction
Bernhard Fuehrer and Yang Hsiu-fang
Taipei: NTU Press, 2015
Spoken Amoy Hokkien
Nicholas C. Bodman
Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, 1987.
Spoken Taiwanese
Nicholas C. Bodman
Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, 1980.
Daigie Hagsip Cheq
Chng Sèng-hiông and Khu Iām-lêng
Taichung: Taiwanese Language Research Society, 2001.
Pe̍h-ōe-jī Sı̍t-iōng Kàu-kho-su (POJ Practical Teaching Guide)
Hí Iú-sêng
Tainan: PCT Press, 1930 (reprinted 2007).
Taiwanese (series)
Soa Éng-seng (ed.)
Taichung: Maryknoll, 1984–85.
Taiwanisch: Wort für Wort
Katharina Sommer
Reise Know-How Verlag, 2004.
Elementary Taiwanese for Foreigners
Taipei Taiwanese Association
Taipei: Kaito Publishing, 2005.
Written Taiwanese Textbook
Tân Kong-hui
Sanchong: Chongguang, 2000.
Harvard Taiwanese 101
Chieh-Ting Yeh & Marian Lee
Tainan: King-an Publishing, 2005.
Dictionaries & Grammars
A Dictionary of the Amoy Vernacular
William Campbell
1913
Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy
Carstairs Douglas & Thomas Barclay
1873 (revised and extended, 1923)
English Amoy Dictionary
Maryknoll Fathers
Taichung: Maryknoll, 1979.
Taiwanese-English Dictionary
Russell Sprinkle et al.
Taichung: Maryknoll, 1976 (revised 2001)
Linguistics
臺灣河佬語聲調研究 (Research into Ho-lo Taiwanese Tones)
Âng Ûi-jîn
Taipei: Zili, 1985.
台灣方言之旅 (Journeys through Taiwanese Dialects)
Âng Ûi-jîn
Taipei: Avanguard, 1991.
Mapping Taiwanese
Warren A. Brewer
Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2008.
演變中的臺灣社會語文 (Essays on Taiwan's Sociolinguistic Problems)
Robert L. Cheng (ed.)
Taipei: Zili, 1990.
The Phonetic Structure and Tonal Structure in Hagu
Chiu Bien-ming
Xiamen: University of Amoy Press, 1934.
Language, Identity, and Decolonization
Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung
Tainan: NCKU Press, 2005.
Language, Literature, and Reimagined Taiwanese Nation
Wi-vun Taiffalo Chiung
Tainan: NCKU Press, 2007.
The Segmental Phonology of Southern Min in Taiwan
Chung Raung-fu
Taipei: Spoken Language Services, 1996.
The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy
John DeFrancis
Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
Written Taiwanese
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.
Taiwanese Lexical Change and Variation
Li Chin-an (Lí Khîn-hōaⁿ)
Tainan: King-an Publishing, 2006.
Chinese
Jerry Norman
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
The Languages of China
S. Robert Ramsey
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Literature
A-hōng ê Gō͘ Tō͘ ê Khong-kan
Chang Yu-hong
Kaohsiung: Taiwan Romanization Association, 2005.
Aesop's Fables
Ong Siok-tin and Ang Ka-phin (eds.)
Kaohsiung: Taiwan Romanization Association, 2002.
