The New American Swimming Pool:

Innovations in Design and Construction, 40 Case Studies, is basically a collection of “award winning” residential swimming pools and spas from the late 1990’s. This is truly a coffee table book with lots of nice photographs. All of the pools shown are not your typical backyard swimming pools; however, these are all projects with landscape architects involved, so there are many nice hardscape and landscape ideas to go along with the pool designs.

If you are considering a new pool or major pool renovation, this book is worth a trip to your local library or picking up used.

Published in 2001 (ISBN 0823031756) it will take many years for the provided information to become dated, so I would not expect updated editions or follow-up versions frequently.