This document provides a list of scholarly sources to read about thing theory and the study of objects and material culture. It includes books and articles that discuss objects from perspectives such as commodity and consumer culture, literary representations of things, philosophical understandings of objects and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalytic approaches, and the social lives and meanings of everyday things. Major authors mentioned include Arjun Appadurai, Jean Baudrillard, Jane Bennett, Bill Brown, Bruno Latour, Daniel Miller, and Sherry Turkle.