I suppose it is more accurate to say that I am reading about mining towns right now. Not all mining towns of the west are classified as a ghost town, not to mention that finding books about ghost towns can be difficult. Here are a couple of things I have found:
1. Gold Placers of the Secesh Basin, Idaho County, Idaho by Stephen R. Capps
2. The Journal of George H. Faull: Pioneer of the Comstock Lode and the Boise Basin by John and Brian Kent