フレミングが学校に通い始めたのは10歳のときで、特に幾何学が得意だった。それ以前は母から教えられていて、Child's Guide to Knowledge という子供向けの本をよく読んでいた。大人になってからも、その本から引用することがあった。University College School に進学し、数学では優秀だったが、ラテン語ではいつも成績が悪かった。
Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A course of four lectures on electric illumination delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1894) 228 pages, ISBN 0548479372.
The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Company (1896)
Magnets and Electric Currents E. & F. N. Spon. (1898)
A Handbook for the Electrical Laboratory and Testing Room "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Company (1901)
Waves and Ripples in Water, Air, and Aether MacMillan (1902).
The Evidence of Things Not Seen Christian Knowledge Society: London (1904)
The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy (1906), Longmans Green, London, 671 pages.
The Propagation of Electric Currents in Telephone and Telegraph Conductors (1908) Constable, 316 pages.
An Elementary Manual of Radiotelegraphy and Radiotelephony (1911) Longmans Green, London, 340 pages.
On the power factor and conductivity of dielectrics when tested with alternating electric currents of telephonic frequency at various temperatures (1912) Gresham, 82 pages, ASIN: B0008CJBIC
The Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy : Explained in simple terms for the non-technical reader Society for promoting Christian Knowledge (1913)
The Wireless Telegraphist's Pocket Book of Notes, Formulae and Calculations The Wireless Press (1915)
The Thermionic Valve and its Development in Radio Telegraphy and Telephony (1919).
Fifty Years of Electricity The Wireless Press (1921)
Electrons, Electric Waves and Wireless telephony The Wireless Press (1923)
Introduction to Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd. (1924)
Mercury-arc Rectifiers and Mercury-vapour Lamps London. Pitman (1925)
The Electrical Educator (3 volumes), The New Era Publishing Co Ltd (1927)
Memories of a Scientific life Marshall, Morgan & Scott (1934)
Evolution or Creation? (1938) Marshall Morgan and Scott, 114 pages, ASIN: B00089BL7Y - outlines objections to Darwin.
Mathematics for Engineers George Newnes Ltd (1938)
Brittain James E. (2007). “John A. Fleming”. Proceedings of the IEEE95 (1): 313–315.
Mitchell, John; Griffiths, Hugh; Boyd, Ian (2006), Sarkar, Tapan; Mailloux, Robert; Oliner, Arthur et al., eds., History of Wireless, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 311–326, ISBN0-471-71814-9