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.
Adelman, Jeremy - Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic.
Afolabi, Niyi, ed. - Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections and Identities.
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.
Allende, Isabel - My invented country: a nostalgic journey through Chile.
Allofs, Theo - Pantanal: South America's Wetland Jewel.
Anderson, Jon Lee - Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press, 1997.
Armstrong, Christopher and Nelles, H. V. - Southern Exposure.
Attlee, Rupert - The trail to Titicaca: a journey through South America.
Baim, Jo - Tango: creation of a cultural icon.
Barlow, Barry H. - Revolution in the Americas.
Betanzos, Juan de - Narrative of the Incas.
Bethell, Leslie, ed. - The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume VIII.
Blackburn, Robin - The rise and fall of slavery in the Americas: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights.
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.
Blashford-Snell, John - East to the Amazon: in search of Great Paititi and the trade routes of the ancients.
Bolivar, Simon - The Bolivarian revolution.
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).
Boudin, Chesa - Gringo: coming of age in Latin America.
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.
Burges, Sean W. - Brazilian foreign policy after the Cold War. University of Florida Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8130-3333-4.
Bushby, Karl - Giant Steps: an American odyssey from Punta Arenas to the edge of Alaska. Sphere. ISBN 978-0-7515-3695-9.
Cahill, Tim - Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue.
Campbell, Lyle - On South American Indian languages.
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - The Accidental President of Brazil.
Casey, Michael - Che's afterlife: the legacy of an image.
Castaneda, Jorge G. - Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
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.
Castner, James L. - Rainforests: A Guide to Research and Tourist Facilities in Selected Tropical Forest Sites in Central and South America.
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.
Chilies to chocolate: food the Americas gave the world.
Chomsky, Noam - Hopes and Prospects.
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.
Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff - Law and Disorder in the Postcolony.
Connaghan, Catherine M. and James M. Malloy - Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
Correlli, Gena K. - In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People. Tundra, 2007.
Curbelo, Nestor - The History of the Mormons in Argentina.
Curto, Jose C. and Renee Soulodre-La France - Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade.
Dantas, Mariana L. R., ed. by Amy Turner Bushnell and Jack P. Greene - Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas.
Darwin, Charles - The Voyage of the Beagle.
Davies, Catherine, Claire Brewster, and Hilary Owen - South American Independence: gender, politics, text.
Derr, Mark - A dog's history of America: how our best friend explored, conquered, and settled a continent.
Deutsch, Sandra McKee - Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1939. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Dewar, Elaine - Bones: discovering the first Americans.
Dillehay, Tom D. - The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Dominguez, Jorge I. and Abraham F. Lowenthal - Constructing Democratic Governance: South America in the 1990s.
Drake, Paul W. - Labor Movements and Dictatorships: The Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective.
Drury, Nevill - The Shaman's Quest: Journeys in an Ancient Spiritual Practice.
Dwyer, Augusta - Into the Amazon: Chico Mendes and The Struggle for The Rain Forest // Review.
Early, John D. and John F. Peters - The Population Dynamics of the Mucajai Yanomama.
Eaton, Kent - Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. Stanford, 2004, ISBN 0-8047-4991-4.
Elliott, John Huxtable - Empires of the Atlantic world: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830.
Farer, Tom, ed. - Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Feinberg, Richard E. - Summitry in the Americas. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - The Americas: a hemispheric history.
Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America.
Fuson, Robert H. - Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida.
Galenao, Eduardo H. - Soccer in sun and shadow.
Garber, Paul A., et al., eds. - South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology, and conservation.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Clandestine in Chile: the adventures of Miguel Littin.
Gardner, Alfred L. - Mammals of South America.
Gentzier, Edwin - Translation and identity in the Americas: new directions in translation theory. Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-77451-2.
Gibson, Christine - Extreme natural disasters.
Giesso, Martin - Historical Dictionary of Ancient South America. Scarecrow, 2008.
Gordon, Theisen - The life of Eva Peron.
Gould, Carol Grant - The remarkable life of William Beeve: explorer and naturalist.
Granado, Alberto - Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary.
Green, Duncan - Silent Revolution: The Rise of Market Economics in Latin America.
Grow, Michael S. - U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War.
Guevara, Ernesto - The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America.
Guevara Lynch, Ernesto - Young Che: memories of Che Guevara by his father.
Harrison, John - Off the map: a journey through the Amazonian wild.
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.
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.
Heggstad, Glen - Two wheels through terror: diary of a South American motorcycle odyssey.
Hill, Geoff - The road to Gobblers Knob: From Chile to Alaska on a motorbike.
Hill, Jonathan D. and Fernando Santos-Granero, eds. - Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia.
Honigsbaum, Mark - The fever trail: in search of the cure for malaria.
Honigsbaum, Mark - Valverde's gold: in search of the last great Inca treasure.
Kane, Joe - Savages. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 0-679-41191-7.
Katz, Friedrich - Ancient American Civilizations.
Kelly, Philip and Jack Child, eds. - Geopolitics of the Southern Cone and Antarctica.
Koch, Peter O. - The Spanish conquest of the Inca empire.
Kozloff, Nikolas - Revolution!: South America and the rise of the new left.
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
Larson, Brooke, and Olivia Harris with Enrique Tandeter, ed. - Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology.
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.
Lord, Rexford D. - Mammals of South America.
Lynch, John - 'San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-12643-3.
Lynch, John - Simon Bolivar: A Life. Yale, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11062-6.
MacLachlan, Colin M. - Argentina: what went wrong.
Madge, Tim - White Mischief: A Cultural History of Cocaine. 2004, ISBN 1-56025-370-3.
Magan, Manchan - Angels and Rabies: a journey through the Americas.
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.
Mainwaring, Scott, Guillermo O'Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds. - Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective.
Mancilla, Lucio V., trans. by Eva Gillies - A visit to the Ranquel Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Marcy, William L. - The politics of cocaine: how U.S. policy has created a thriving drug industry in Central and South America.
Marley, David F. - Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, ISBN 1-57607-027-1, ISBN 1-57607-574-5.
Marley, David F. - Pirates of the Americas: v. 1: 1650–1685; v. 2 - 1686–1725.
Martin, Felix E. - Militarist Peace in South America: Conditions for War and Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4039-7312-2.
Masterson, Daniel M. - The history of Peru.
Matthiessen, Peter - The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness.
Mayle, Simon - The Burial Brothers.
McEwan, Gordon Francis - The Incas: new perspectives.
Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-50796-8.
Muller, Karin - Along the Inca Road: a woman's journey into an ancient empire.
Naipaul, V. S. - The Middle Passage: the Caribbean Revisited.
Nance, John J. - On Shaky Ground.
Newson, Linda A. and Susie Minchin - From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century.
Newton, A. C., ed. - Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America.
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.
Novas, Fernando E. - The Age of Dinosaurs in South America. Indiana, 2009, ISBN 978-0-253-35289-7.
Ocamp, Emilio - The emperor's last campaign: a Napoleonic empire in America. Alabama, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8173-1646-4.
Olsen, Dale A. - The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese diaspora.
Opere, Fernando - Indian captivity in Spanish America: frontier narratives.
Pan American Health Organization, ed. - Health in the Americas: 1998 edition.
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
Plotkin, Mark - Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Viking.
Pryce, Lois - Lois on the loose: one woman, one motorcycle, 20,000 miles across the Americas.
Punnett, Betty Jane, et al. - Successful professional women of the Americas: from polar winds to tropical breezes. Elgar, 2006, ISBN 1-84542-437-9.
Redford, Kent H. and Christian Padoch, eds. - Conservation of neotropical forests: working from traditional resource use.
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.
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.
Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt - Cartographica extraordinaire: the historical map transformed. ESRI, Inc. 2004, ISBN 1-58948-044-9.
Saifer, Neil - Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America.
Sanchez, German - Cuba and Venezuela: an insight into two revolutions.
Saunders, Nicholas - Ancient Americas: the great civilisations.
Schappert, Phil - The last monarch butterfly: conserving the monarch butterfly in a brave new world.
Shah, Tahir - Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland.
Shah, Tahir - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost Inca City.
Shah, Tahir - Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru.
Shukman, Henry - Sons of the moon: a journey in the Andes.
Silvius, Kirsten M., Richard E. Bodmer, and Jose M. V. Fragaso, eds. - Peoples in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America.
Simons, Eric - Darwin slept here: discovery, adventure and swimming iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America.
Sivak, Martin - Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia.
Slatta, Richard W. - Cowboys of the Americas.
Slatta, Richard W. - Simon Bolivar's quest for glory.
Starkell, Don - Paddle to the Amazon.
Symmes, Patrick - Chasing Che: a motorcycle journey in search of the Guevara legend.
Tarver, Hollis Micheal Denova - The History of Venezuela.
Theroux, Paul - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
Thompson, Angela - Textiles of Central and South America. Crowood Press, 2006, ISBN 1-86126-826-2, ISBN 978-1-86126-826-6.
Tidwell, Mike - Amazon stranger.
Tierney, Patrick - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon.
Trexler, Richard C. - Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas.
Walvin, James - Atlas of Slavery.
White, Rodney R. - North, South, and the Environmental Crisis.
Whitehead, Laurence - The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Wood, Adrian - North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality. New York: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1994.
Whitehead, Neil L., and Robin Wright, eds. - In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia.
