The Jaguar Smile; a Nicaraguan Journey, Salman Rushdie, Pan Books Ltd, 1987. ISBN 0-8050-5311-5
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution, Matilde Zimmermann, Duke University Press, 2001
The Life and Death Of Ben Linder, Joan Kruckewitt, Seven Stories Press, 2001
Nicaragua, Thomas W. Walker, Westview Press, 2003
Nicaragua: Those Passed By, Vern P. Asleson, Galde Press ISBN 1-931942-16-1, 2004
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War, Gioconda Belli, Anchor, 2003
Breaking Faith: The Sandinista Revolution and Its Impact on Freedom and Christian Faith in Nicaragua, Humberto Belli, The Puebla Institute, 1985. ISBN 0-89107-359-0
Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, Stephen Kinzer, The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College, 2007. ISBN 978-0-674-02593-6
Nicaragua, back from the dead? : an anthropological view of the Sandinista movement in the early 21st century, Johannes Wilm. Oslo, Norway : New Left Notes, c2011.
Impurezas de la Democracia: La Conspiración de la Izquierda Continental, Eugenio Batres García, HISPAMER, 2006. ISBN 99924-57-80-5
Con Sandino en Nicaragua : la hora de la paz, Ramón de Belausteguigoitia. Managua, Nicaragua : Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1981.
Where is Nicaragua? Peter Davis. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster. University of California Press, 1994.
Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972, Michael D. Gambone, Praeger Publishers, 2001.
Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987, Roy Gutman. Touchstone Books, 1989.
Patchwork democracy : Nicaraguan politics ten years after the fall. David R. Dye with Jack Spence and George Vickers. Cambridge, MA : Hemisphere Initiatives, 2000.
A Strange Silence: The Emergence of Democracy in Nicaragua, Stephen Schwartz, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1992. ISBN 1-55815-071-4
The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua, The Minority Rights Group, Report No. 79. ISBN 0-946690-59-6
The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua, Timothy C. Brown, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8061-3252-3
The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States, Steven E. Hendrix. Praeger, 2009.
Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle by Thomas W. Walker and Christine J. Wade (Jan 4, 2011)
The Burden of Knowing: A journey, a friendship, and the power of truth in Nicaragua by Sharon Rezac Andersen (Sep 15, 2012)
Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848 by Karl Bermann. Compita (August 1986). ISBN 0896083241,
ISBN 978-0896083240
Fiction
Bernardo and the Virgin: A Novel, Silvio Sirias, Northwestern University Press, 2005
Meet Me Under the Ceiba, Silvio Sirias, Arte Publico Press, 2009
Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramírez, Santillana USA, 2005
Walker A film about William Walker, a 19th-century soldier of fortune and ruler of Nicaragua.
Under Fire A film about the last days of Somoza's rule. (Fictional story)
Carla's Song A film about the Sandinistas-Contras conflict. (Fictional, but highly political)
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive [2] A 1983 television documentary by John Pilger.
Nicaragua Was Our Home A documentary about repression of the Miskito Indians.
Pictures from a Revolution A 1991 documentary in which Susan Meiselas returns to Nicaragua to seek out the people and places she'd photographed there in 1979, during the revolution.
Que viva Mauricio Demierre/Y también la revolucion A 2006 documentary by Stéphane Goël about a Swiss cooperant who was murdered by the contras during the revolution.
Last Plane Out 1983 film portraying Anastasio Somoza Debayle in a positive light.
