Here is a list of the resources on the internet for different topics in graduate-level Theoretical Physics. The underlined words below are links to the resources.

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String Theory basics

• To understand the basics of string theory, this resource by David Tong is useful but he only talks about bosonic string theory in detail. He does talk about superstring theory results but doesn’t derive them.
• This book by Barton Zweibach is also good for beginners. It doesn’t go into superstrings too but some rather sophisticated topics for bosonic strings are discussed. This book has accompanying lectures by Barton Zweibach at Perimeter institute as well.
• The classic volume 1 and volume 2 by M Green, J Schwarz and E Witten (called GSW for short) cover the basics of the theory very well. Some later developments are omitted because the books were written in the mid-’80s. However, some topics are covered here that are not found in detail in later texts e.g. Polchinski. One example of a such topic is the derivation of anomaly polynomials.
• The classic volume 1 and volume 2 by Polchinski are fantastic resources. Volume 1 covers details topics regarding bosonic strings and many results from volume 1 are used in volume 2 thus, reading it is essential. Volume 2 covers superstrings and other advanced topics including D Branes, M theory, and compactifications. The compactifications aren’t covered in too much detail though.
• Some later texts regarding string theory include this book by Becker, Becker & Schwarz, this book by Blumenhagen, Lust & Theisen, and this book by E Kiritsis.
• Although the books by Polchinski are already mentioned, someone might find this earlier review by Polchinski interesting too.

String Field Theory (SFT)

• An older text for SFT is this book by W Siegel. This book is fine but inevitably, this book lacks recent developments.
• A very recent book on SFT is this book by H Erbin. This book covers lots of stuff but (inevitably) misses some topics because SFT is such a vast field. One such missing topic is tachyon condensation.
• A resource for open SFT, including tachyon condensation is this review. For a decent introduction to closed SFT, see this review by B Zweibach.

M theory and F theory

• For an introduction to F theory, these TASI lectures by T Weigand are very well written. Another resource for F theory is this one by S Cecotti.
• For an introduction to M theory, see these lectures by B Ovrut, and these (rather older) lectures by M Li.
• A resource that talks about the non-perturbative string phenomenon and also introduces M theory and F theory is this review by A Sen.

String Compactifications

• An introduction to string compactifications can be found in this review by Font and Theisen, this review by Grana and Trendl (which was turned into this book later), and this review by A Uranga.
• For flux compactifications, see this review by M Grana.
• A detailed review of four-dimensional compactifications including D Branes, orientifolds, and fluxes is this review by Blumenhagen, Kors, Lust, and Steiberger.
• A rather detailed resource for complex manifolds and Calabi Yau manifolds (written for physicists) is this book by T Hubsch. For a comparatively shorter resource, see these lectures by P Candeles and Xenia de la Ossa.

Swampland

• This review by E Palti is very detailed. A comparatively shorter and well-written review is this review by Beest, Infante, Mirfendereski, and Venezuela.
• This very recent review by N Benjamin, A Bedroya, MJ Kang, and C Vafa is well-written. It also covers the basics of string theory and string dualities.
• A rather detailed review of one of the swampland conjectures called the weak gravity conjecture is this review by D Harlow.

AdS/CFT

• These lectures by J Maldacena, these lectures by F Benini and these lectures by J Kaplan are good resources with a decent amount of details.
• A very detailed (and famous) resource is this one by Aharony. Gubser, Maldacena, Ooguri and Oz.

Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT)

• A classical resource is this one by M Atiyah. Another classical resource for an introduction to cohomological TQFT is this by E Witten.
• Another resource is this resource by Labatista and Lozano, this one by M Marino, and this more recent resource by Carqueville & Runkel.

Topological Strings

• A well-written resource is this one by M Vonk. Another introductory resource is this one by A Neitzke and C Vafa.
• Another set of lectures on matrix models and topological strings is this one by M Marino.
• This book by Labatista and Marino focuses on TQFTs in four dimensions.
• A resource that focuses on Frobenius algebras is this one by J Kock. These notes constitute the short version of this book by the same author.

Supersymmetry (SUSY) and Supergravity (SUGRA)

• The standard references for SUGRA (that also talk about SUSY of course) include this book by Wess & Bagger (an older book) and this book by Freedman & Proeyen (a much more recent book).
• Other very effective resources for SUSY include this small review by A. Bilal and these much more detailed and well-written lectures by M Bertolini. Very recently, notes on SUSY field theory, written by D. Tong appeared. He also has these notes on SUSY quantum mechanics.
• Some more resources for SUSY include this volume III of Weinberg’s QFT books (its notation and methods are usually alien to string theory people), this book by Gates, Srisaru, Rocek & Siegel, this book by Kirsten & Wiedemann (this book does every step for you, so be careful when learning from it), these notes by J. Lykken, and these Cambridge lectures. There are recorded lectures that go with these written Cambridge lectures and they can be found here.
• Some resources for SUGRA include these very detailed but fairly old notes by P.V. Nieuwenhuizen, this book by P West, this book by P. Nath, these notes by B DeWitt, and these notes by H Nastase.

Liouville Theory

• A well-written resource is this resource by Y Nakayama. Another very well-written resource is chapter 3 of these TASI lectures by P. Ginsparg and G. Moore.

Conformal Field Theory (CFT)

• The standard references include this big yellow book by Di Francesco, Mathieu, & Senechal, and this review by P. Ginsparg.
• A resource for mathematicians who want to learn CFT is this book by M. Schottenloher.
• Other resources for introductory CFT include this small book by Blumenhagen and Plauschinn, these lectures by J. Qualls, these notes by K. Gawedski, and these ten but comprehensive lectures by T. Osborne.
• This book by Recknagel and Schomerus is a detailed analysis of Boundary CFT (BCFT). Their treatment is such that it is rigorous enough for many mathematicians to read it. This nice and small article by J. Cardy is a quick introduction to results in BCFT, without talking about their applications to D Branes and condensed matter physics.
• Resources for conformal bootstrap include this review by D. Poland and these TASI lectures by D. S. Duffin.

(To be continued)