Reddit mentions of RF Circuit Design

Experimental Methods in RF Design - Wes Hayward

http://www.arrl.org/shop/Experimental-Methods-in-RF-Design-Classic-Reprint-Edition/

RF Circuit Design- Bowick

https://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-Second-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526760096&sr=1-1&keywords=rf+design+bowick

Phase-locked loop Engineering Handbook for Integrated Circuits - Stanley Goldman

https://www.amazon.com/Phase-Locked-Engineering-Handbook-Integrated-Circuits/dp/159693154X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526759158&sr=8-1&keywords=phase+locked+loop+handbook

High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic

https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp/8131714128/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526759237&sr=1-2&keywords=high-speed+digital+design

Handbook of Digital Techniques for High-Speed Design: Design Examples, Signaling and Memory Technologies, Fiber Optics, Modeling, and Simulation to Ensure Signal Integrity - Tom Granberg

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Digital-Techniques-High-Speed-Design/dp/013142291X/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526759527&sr=1-10&keywords=high+speed+digital

As far as RF/Analog IC text is concerned, Razavi and Lee write some great conceptual discussions. Anything from the ARRL is great as well, if you want to look into the perspective of experimental engineers. The textbooks that I noted above come from the perspectives of former design engineers. They can be treated like design cookbooks that are equipped with appropriate discussions that substantiate common design techniques. I hope that these help. For a more general text that approaches a breadth of topics, the Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz is an absolute classic, and it is a must read for developing the fundamentals strongly.

This one has been helpful. You should also learn to know and love smith charts. Very useful in matching impedances, and will make filter design ever so much easier.

Bowick, RF Circuit Design is the book that every RF engineer at Motorola had.

http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-Second-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182

I haven't seen the 2nd edition, but the first was a pretty good book.

https://www.amazon.com/RF-Circuit-Design-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182

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This is best done in the frequency domain with laplace transforms. Are you familiar with that approach?

This looks a lot like doing lumped element models of discrete components for RF analysis. There's books and such that discuss this approach

[RF Circuit Design] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750685182/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1) by Chris Bowick. Has extensive coverage of analog RF filters and lucid explanation of the subject.

I'm doing the same thing. The two books that are on my "to buy" list so far are:

http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Methods-Design-ARRL-Inc/dp/087259923X

http://www.amazon.com/RF-Circuit-Design-Second-Edition/dp/0750685182

I could read and read and read, but it wasn't until I put it to practice that I got it. https://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-Second-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182 I walked through his examples and built and measured some impedance matches and it finally stuck.

What are you trying to do?

Create a simple transmitter and receiver for nothing more than a simple RF switch?

Anyway this is a good book to start - it's about intermediate level complexity. It includes all the math but it also ties everything to physical components - if you can read an electrical schematic you should be ok. Plus there is a kindle version for about $30.

[RF Circuit Design - Christopher Bowick] (http://www.amazon.ca/RF-Circuit-Design-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182/ref=dp_ob_image_bk)

You're really going to need to start getting to electromagnetics to really understand what's going on.

If you want a general idea of what's going on, and some design guidelines, an easy ungrad level book would be RF Circuit Design by Chris Bowick: https://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-Second-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467379245&sr=8-1&keywords=chris+bowick

If you want to get a better understanding of basic EM theory, a book I'm fairly pleased with is Engineering Electromagnetics, by Nathan Ida: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Electromagnetics-Nathan-Ida/dp/3319078054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467379265&sr=8-1&keywords=Nathan+Ida

https://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Design-Second-Christopher-Bowick/dp/0750685182