'We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves,ISBN 978-1439181034, by M. Scott Carpenter (Author) , Gordon L. Cooper (Author) , John H. Glenn (Author) , Virgil I. Grissom (Author) , Walter M. Schirra (Author) , Alan B. Shepard (Author) , Donald K. Slayton (Author),
For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut,ISBN 0-15-100467-6 or the revised paperback edition ISBN 0-451-21105-7, Carpenter's biography, co-written with his daughter Kris Stoever; describes his childhood, his experiences as a naval aviator, a Mercury astronaut, including an account of what went wrong, and right, on the flight of Aurora 7.