Lynne B. Sagalyn’s “Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan” and Judith Dupré’s “One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building” are two of the most consequential new books about the redevelopment of the World Trade Center.

Here is a list of nine other books to which I have turned again and again during the 13 years I’ve covered the story. There are equally good books on the long Sept. 11 shelf, but these are the most thumbed-through in my collection. They may offer a helpful starting point for anyone studying the history of the site.

“Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive,” by Joel Meyerowitz.

“City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center,” by James Glanz and Eric Lipton.

“Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site,” by Suzanne Stephens, with Ian Luna and Ron Broadhurst.