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This bibliography of South America is a list of English-language nonfiction books which have been described by reliable sources as in some way directly relating to the subject of South America, its history, geography, culture, people, etc.
- Adelaar, Willem F. H. with Pieter C. Muysken - The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge, 2004, ISBN 0-521-36275-X. [1]
- Adelman, Jeremy - Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. [2]
- Afolabi, Niyi, ed. - Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections and Identities. [3]
- Ahvenainen, Jorma - The European Cable Companies in South America Before the First World War. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2004. ISBN 951-41-0947-3. [4] [5]
- Allende, Isabel - My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile. [6]
- Allofs, Theo - Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel. [7]
- Anderson, Jon Lee - Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press, 1997. [8]
- Armstrong, Christopher and Nelles, H. V. - Southern Exposure. [9]
- Attlee, Rupert - The trail to Titicaca: a journey through South America. [10]
- Baim, Jo - Tango: creation of a cultural icon. [11]
- Barlow, Barry H. - Revolution in the Americas. [12]
- Betanzos, Juan de - Narrative of the Incas. [13]
- Bethell, Leslie, ed. - The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VIII. [14]
- Blackburn, Robin - The rise and fall of slavery in the Americas: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights. [15]
- Blanchard, Peter - Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave Soldiers and the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8229-5992-2. [16] [17]
- Blashford-Snell, John - East to the Amazon: in search of Great Paititi and the trade routes of the ancients. [18]
- Bolivar, Simon - The Bolivarian revolution. [19]
- Bonavia, Duccio, trans. by. Javier Flores Espinoza. The South American Camelids, expanded and corrected ed. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008. ISBN 978-1-931745-40-6 (hc), ISBN 978-1-931745-41-3 (pb). [20]
- Boudin, Chesa - Gringo: coming of age in Latin America. [21]
- Bouzas, Roberto, and Jaime Ros, eds. - Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. ISBN 0-268-00930-9. [22]
- Burges, Sean W. - Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. University of Florida Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8130-3333-4. [23]
- Bushby, Karl - Giant Steps: an American odyssey from Punta Arenas to the edge of Alaska. Sphere. ISBN 978-0-7515-3695-9. [24]
- Cahill, Tim - Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue. [25]
- Campbell, Lyle - On South American Indian languages. [26]
- Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - The Accidental President of Brazil. [27]
- Casey, Michael - Che's afterlife: the legacy of an image. [28]
- Castaneda, Jorge G. - Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. [8]
- Castro, Max J., ed. - Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press, 1999. [29]
- Castner, James L. - Rainforests: A Guide to Research and Tourist Facilities in Selected Tropical Forest Sites in Central and South America. [30]
- Charbonneau, Steven J. - Lust For Inca Gold: The Llanganati Treasure Story & Maps, ISBN 1478146060
- Childress, David Hatcher - Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America. ISBN 0-932813-02-X. [31]
- Chilies to chocolate: food the Americas gave the world. [32]
- Chomsky, Noam - Hopes and Prospects. [33]
- Colby, Gerard - Thy Will Be Done: the Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 0-06-016764-5. [34]
- Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff - Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. [35]
- Connaghan, Catherine M. and James M. Malloy - Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. [36]
- Correlli, Gena K. - In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People. Tundra, 2007. [37]
- Curbelo, Nestor - The History of the Mormons in Argentina. [38]
- Curto, Jose C. and Renee Soulodre-La France - Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade. [39]
- Dantas, Mariana L. R., ed. by Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene - Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. [40]
- Darwin, Charles - The Voyage of the Beagle. [41]
- Davies, Catherine, Claire Brewster, and Hilary Owen - South American Independence: gender, politics, text. [42]
- Derr, Mark - A dog's history of America: how our best friend explored, conquered, and settled a continent. [43]
- Deutsch, Sandra McKee - Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1939. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. [44]
- Dewar, Elaine - Bones: discovering the first Americans. [45]
- Dillehay, Tom D. - The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. New York: Basic Books, 2000. [46]
- Dominguez, Jorge I. and Abraham F. Lowenthal - Constructing Democratic Governance: South America in the 1990s. [47]
- Drake, Paul W. - Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective. [48]
- Drury, Nevill - The Shaman's Quest: Journeys in an Ancient Spiritual Practice. [49]
- Dwyer, Augusta - Into the Amazon: Chico Mendes and The Struggle for The Rain Forest // Review. [50]
- Early, John D. and John F. Peters - The Population Dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama. [51]
- Eaton, Kent - Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. Stanford, 2004, ISBN 0-8047-4991-4. [52] [53]
- Elliott, John Huxtable - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. [54]
- Farer, Tom, ed. - Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. [55]
- Feinberg, Richard E. - Summitry in the Americas. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1997. [56]
- Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - The Americas: a hemispheric history. [57]
- Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America. [58]
- Fuson, Robert H. - Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida. [59]
- Galenao, Eduardo H. - Soccer in sun and shadow. [60]
- Garber, Paul A., et al., eds. - South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology, and conservation. [61]
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin. [62]
- Gardner, Alfred L. - Mammals of South America. [63]
- Gentzier, Edwin - Translation and identity in the Americas: new directions in translation theory. Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-77451-2. [64]
- Gibson, Christine - Extreme natural disasters. [65]
- Giesso, Martin - Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. Scarecrow, 2008. [66]
- Gordon, Theisen - The life of Eva Peron. [67]
- Gould, Carol Grant - The remarkable life of William Beeve: explorer and naturalist. [68]
- Granado, Alberto - Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. [69]
- Green, Duncan - Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America. [70]
- Grow, Michael S. - U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. [71]
- Guevara, Ernesto - The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America. [8] [72]
- Guevara Lynch, Ernesto - Young Che: memories of Che Guevara by his father. [73]
- Harrison, John - Off the map: a journey through the Amazonian wild. [74]
- Harvey, Brian, Henk Smid, and Theo Pirard - Emerging Space Powers: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Springer/Praxis, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4419-0873-5. [75]
- Heckman, Charles W. - Encyclopedia of South American aquatic insects: Odonata - Anisoptera: illustrated keys to known families, genera, and species in South America. Springer, 2006, ISBN 1-4020-4801-7. [76]
- Heggstad, Glen - Two wheels through terror: diary of a South American motorcycle odyssey. [77]
- Hill, Geoff - The road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike. [78]
- Hill, Jonathan D. and Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. - Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. [79]
- Honigsbaum, Mark - The fever trail: in search of the cure for malaria. [80]
- Honigsbaum, Mark - Valverde's gold: in search of the last great Inca treasure. [81]
- Kane, Joe - Savages. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 0-679-41191-7. [82] [83]
- Katz, Friedrich - Ancient American Civilizations. [84]
- Kelly, Philip and Jack Child, eds. - Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica. [85]
- Koch, Peter O. - The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire. [86]
- Kozloff, Nikolas - Revolution!: South America and the rise of the new left. [87]
- Kricher, John C. – A Neotropical Companion: an Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999. ISBN 978-0-691-00974-2 [30]
- Larson, Brooke, and Olivia Harris with Enrique Tandeter, ed. - Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. [88]
- Linz, Juan J. and Alfred Stepan - Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. [36] [89]
- Lord, Rexford D. - Mammals of South America. [90]
- Lynch, John - 'San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-12643-3. [91]
- Lynch, John - Simon Bolivar: A Life. Yale, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11062-6. [92] [93] [94]
- MacLachlan, Colin M. - Argentina: what went wrong. [95]
- Madge, Tim - White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine. 2004, ISBN 1-56025-370-3. [96]
- Magan, Manchan - Angels and Rabies: a journey through the Americas. [97]
- Mainwaring, Scott, Ana Maria Bejarno, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez, eds. - The crisis of democratic representation in the Andes. Stanford, 2006, ISBN 0-8047-5278-8, ISBN 978-0-8047-5278-7. [98]
- Mainwaring, Scott, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds. - Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective. [99]
- Mancilla, Lucio V., trans. by Eva Gillies - A visit to the Ranquel Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. [100]
- Marcy, William L. - The politics of cocaine: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America. [101]
- Marley, David F. - Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, ISBN 1-57607-027-1, ISBN 1-57607-574-5. [102]
- Marley, David F. - Pirates of the Americas: v. 1: 1650–1685; v. 2 - 1686–1725. [103]
- Martin, Felix E. - Militarist Peace in South America: Conditions for War and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4039-7312-2. [104]
- Masterson, Daniel M. - The history of Peru. [105]
- Matthiessen, Peter - The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness. [106]
- Mayle, Simon - The Burial Brothers. [107]
- McEwan, Gordon Francis - The Incas: new perspectives. [108]
- Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50796-8. [109]
- Muller, Karin - Along the Inca Road: a woman's journey into an ancient empire. [110]
- Naipaul, V. S. - The Middle Passage: the Caribbean Revisited. [111]
- Nance, John J. - On Shaky Ground. [112]
- Newson, Linda A. and Susie Minchin - From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century. [113]
- Newton, A. C., ed. - Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America. [114]
- Nohlen, Dieter, ed. - Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook: v.1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; v.2: South America. Oxford, 2005, ISBN 0-19-925358-7. [115]
- Novas, Fernando E. - The Age of Dinosaurs in South America. Indiana, 2009, ISBN 978-0-253-35289-7. [116]
- Ocamp, Emilio - The emperor's last campaign: a Napoleonic empire in America. Alabama, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8173-1646-4. [117]
- Olsen, Dale A. - The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese diaspora. [118] [119] [120]
- Opere, Fernando - Indian captivity in Spanish America: frontier narratives. [121]
- Pan American Health Organization, ed. - Health in the Americas: 1998 edition. [122]
- Perez-Mejia, Angela, translated by Dick Cluster - A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780–1849. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004, ISBN 0791460142 [123]
- Plotkin, Mark - Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Viking. [124]
- Pryce, Lois - Lois on the loose: one woman, one motorcycle, 20,000 miles across the Americas. [125]
- Punnett, Betty Jane, et al. - Successful professional women of the Americas: from polar winds to tropical breezes. Elgar, 2006, ISBN 1-84542-437-9. [126]
- Redford, Kent H. and Christian Padoch, eds. - Conservation of neotropical forests: working from traditional resource use. [127]
- Reel, Monte - The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon. Scriber, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4165-9474-1. [128]
- Restall, Robin, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lention with David Ascanio - Birds of northern South America: an identification guide: v.1: Species accounts; v.2: Plates and maps. Yale, 2006, ISBN 0-300-12504-6. [129]
- Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt - Cartographica extraordinaire: the historical map transformed. ESRI, Inc. 2004, ISBN 1-58948-044-9. [130]
- Saifer, Neil - Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. [131] [132] [133] [134]
- Sanchez, German - Cuba and Venezuela: an insight into two revolutions. [135]
- Saunders, Nicholas - Ancient Americas: the great civilisations. [136]
- Schappert, Phil - The last monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch butterfly in a brave new world. [137]
- Shah, Tahir - Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland. [138]
- Shah, Tahir - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost Inca City. [139]
- Shah, Tahir - Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru. [140]
- Shukman, Henry - Sons of the moon: a journey in the Andes. [141]
- Silvius, Kirsten M., Richard E. Bodmer, and Jose M. V. Fragaso, eds. - Peoples in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America. [142] [143]
- Simons, Eric - Darwin slept here: discovery, adventure and swimming iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America. [144]
- Sivak, Martin - Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia. [145]
- Slatta, Richard W. - Cowboys of the Americas. [146]
- Slatta, Richard W. - Simon Bolivar's quest for glory. [147]
- Starkell, Don - Paddle to the Amazon. [148]
- Symmes, Patrick - Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend. [149]
- Tarver, Hollis Micheal Denova - The History of Venezuela. [150]
- Theroux, Paul - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas. [151]
- Thompson, Angela - Textiles of Central and South America. Crowood Press, 2006, ISBN 1-86126-826-2, ISBN 978-1-86126-826-6. [152]
- Tidwell, Mike - Amazon stranger. [153]
- Tierney, Patrick - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. [154] [155] [156]
- Trexler, Richard C. - Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. [157]
- Walvin, James - Atlas of Slavery. [158]
- White, Rodney R. - North, South, and the Environmental Crisis. [159]
- Whitehead, Laurence - The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [160]
- Wood, Adrian - North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality. New York: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1994. [161]
- Whitehead, Neil L., and Robin Wright, eds. - In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. [162]
