This is a list of published books in English which according to reliable sources deal with the general subject of Western Sahara.

• Amnesty International – Morocco: breaking the wall of silence: the 'disappeared' of Morocco^[1]
• Amnesty International – Morocco: 'disappearances' of people of Western Sahara origin^[2]
• Anderson, Jon Lee – Guerillas: The Men and Women Fighting Today's Wars^[3]
• Arts, Karin and Pedro Pinto Leita, eds. – International Law and the Question of Western Sahara. Leiden: International Platform of Jurists for East Timor, 2007.^[4]
• Barakat, Hakim, ed. – Contemporary North Africa: Issues of Development and Integration^[5]
• Bender, Gerald J., James J. Coleman, Richard L. Sklar, eds. – African crisis areas and United States foreign policy^[6]
• Briggs, Lloyd Cabot – The Living Races of the Sahara Desert^[7]
• Briggs, Lloyd Cabot – The Tribes of the Sahara^[8]
• The British Yearbook of International Law (1978)^[9]
• Brownlie, Ian – African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia^[10]
• Chaliand, Gerard – The Struggle for Africa^[11]
• Chopra, Jarat – Peace-Maintenance. The Evolution of International Political Authority.^[12]
• Chopra, Jarat – United Nations determination of the Western Sahara self^[13]
• Copson, Raymond W. – Africa's Wars and Prospects for Peace^[14]
• Cottrell, Alvin J. & James Daniel Theberge, eds. – The Western Mediterranean^[15]
• Damis, John – Conflict in Northwest Africa^[16]
• Dean, David J. – The air force role in low-intensity conflict^[17]
• El-Ayouty, Yassin, ed. – The OAU after thirty years^[18]
• El-Ayouty, Yassin & I. William Zartman, eds. – The OAU after twenty years^[19]
• El Ouali, Abdelhamid – Saharan Conflict: Towards Territorial Autonomy as a Right to Democratic Self-Determination. London: Stacey International, 2008.^[20]
• Elias, Robert & Jennifer Turpin, eds. – Rethinking peace^[21]
• Firebrace, James and Jeremy Harding – Exiles of the Desert^[22]
• Furley, Oliver, ed. – Conflict in Africa^[23]
• Gallagher, Charles F. – Morocco and Its Neighbours, Part I^[24]
• German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 19^[25]
• Gretton, John – Western Sahara: The Fight for Self-Determination^[26]
• Hacene-Djaballah, Belkacem – Conflict in Western Sahara^[27]
• Haireche, Abdel-Kader – Conflict, conflict management and cooperation in North Africa^[28]
• Harding, Jeremy – The Fate of Africa: Trial by Fire^[29][30]
• Harkavy, Robert E. & Stephanie Newman, eds. – Lessons of Recent Wars in the Third World, Vol. 1^[31]
• Harrell-Bond, Barbara – The Struggle for the Western Sahara Part I^[32]
• Harrell-Bond, Barbara – The Struggle for the Western Sahara Part II^[33]
• Harrell-Bond, Barbara – The Struggle for the Western Sahara Part III^[34]
• Hodges, Tony – Historical dictionary of Western Sahara^[35][36]
• Hodges, Tony – The Western Saharans^[37]
• Hodges, Tony – Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War^[38][39]
• Houser, George M. – No One Can Stop the Rain^[40]
• Human Rights Watch/Middle East – Keeping It Secret^[41]
• Jensen, Erik – Western Sahara: Lines in the Sand. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.^[42]
• Kamil, Leo – Fueling the Fire^[43]
• Keegan, John & Andrew Wheatcroft – Zones of conflict^[23]
• Lawless, Richard & Laila Manahan, eds. – War and refugees^[44][45][46]
• Layachi, Azzedino – Images of foreign policy^[47]
• Layachi, Azzedino – The United States and North Africa^[48]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. I^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. II^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. III^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. IV^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. V^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. VI^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. VII^[49]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. VIII^[50][51]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. IX^[51][52]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. X^[52][53]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XI^[53][54][55]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XII^[56][57]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XIII^[56][58]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XIV^[58][59]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XV^[60][61]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XVI^[58][60][61]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XVII^[61][62][63]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XVIII^[62][63][64]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XIX^[64][65]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XX^[64][65]
• Legum, Colin, ed. – Africa Contemporary Record: Survey and Documents, Vol. XXI^[66][67]
• Lippert, Anne – The Saharawi Refugees^[68]
• Lodwick, John – The Forbidden Coast^[69]
• Markovitz, Irving Leonard, ed. – Studies of power and class in Africa^[70]
• Mercker, John – The Sahrawis of Western Sahara^[71]
• Mercker, John – Spanish Sahara^[72]
• Nelson, Harold D. – Morocco: A Country Study^[73][74]
• Neuberger, Benyamin – National self-determination in post-colonial Africa^[75]
• Norris, H. T. – The Arab Conquest of the Western Sahara^[76][77]
• Olsson, Claes, ed. – The Western Sarhara Conflict: The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2006.^[78]
• Palin, Michael with Basil Pao – Sahara. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's, 2003. ISBN 0-312-30541-9.^[79]
• Parker, Richard B. – North Africa: regional tensions and strategic concerns^[80]
• Partingdon, David H., ed. – The Middle East Annual: Issues and Events, Vol. 2, 1982^[81]
• Pazzanita, Anthony G. & Tony Hodges – A historical dictionary of Western Sahara^[82]
• Pazzanita, Anthony G. – Western Sahara. Oxford: ABC-Clio Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85109-256-0.^[83][84][85]
• Pazzanita, Anthony G. and Tony Hodges – Historical dictionary of Western Sahara, 2nd ed.^[86]
• Pickart, George A. – The Western Sahara^[87]
• Price, David Lynn – Conflict in the Maghreb: the Western Sahara^[88]
• Price, David Lynn – Morocco and the Sahara^[88]
• Price, David Lynn – The Western Sahara^[88]
• Rezette, Robert – The Western Sahara and the Frontiers of Morocco^[89]
• Rivkin, Benjamin – The Western Sahara: towards a referendum^[90]
• Rothschild, David & Naomi Chazan, eds. – The Precarious Balance^[91]
• Rubinstein, Alvin Z. – Moscow's third world strategy^[92]
• Saxena, Suresh Chandra – The Liberation War in Western Sahara^[93]
• Saxena, Suresh Chandra – Self-determination in Western Sahara^[94]
• Saxena, Suresh Chandra – Western Sahara: No Alternative to Armed Struggle.^[95]
• Shelley, Toby – Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony? London and New York: Zed Books, 2004.^{[42][96][97][98][99][100][101]}
• Sipe, Lynn F. – Western Sahara: a comprehensive bibliography^[102]
• Sixth Congress of the Polisario Front^[70]
• Somerville, Keith – Foreign military intervention in Africa^[103]
• Spenler, Chris – The Maghreb in the 1990s^[104]
• Strategic Survey, 1979, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies^[105]
• Strategic Survey, 1982–1983, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies^[106]
• Strategic Survey, 1983–1984, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies^[37]
• Strategic Survey, 1988–1989, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies^[105]
• Thompson, Virginia & Richard Adloff – The Western Saharans^[107]
• Trout, Frank E. – Morocco's Saharan Frontiers^[108]
• United Nations General Assembly Official Records – Report of the United Nations Visiting Mission to Spanish Sahara, 1975
• United Nations Yearbook, 1975^[109]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1976^[110]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1977^[110]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1978^[110]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1979^[111]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1980^[111]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1981^[111]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1982^[111]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1983^[112]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1984^[112]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1985^[112]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1986^[113]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1987^[114]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1988^[115]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1991^[116]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1992^[117]
• United Nations Yearbook, 1993^[118]
• United States State Department – Spanish Sahara: Background Notes^[119]
• Vieuchange, Michel; Vieuchange, Jean (editor). – Smara: The Forbidden City^[120]
• War and Peace. Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Postwar Conflict, vol. X^[121]
• Ware, Lewis B. – Decolonization and the Global Alliance in the Arab Maghrib^[122]
• Waring, Mowton L. – Spanish Sahara, focus of contention^[122]
• Weexsteen, Raoul, et al. – The Struggle for Sahara^[123]
• The World in Conflict 1990, London: Brassey's UK/Maxwell Pergamon^[124]
• Wright, Stephen & Janice N. Brownfoot, eds. – Africa in world politics^[125]
• Zartman, I. William – The political economy of Morocco^[126][127]
• Zartman, I. William – Ripe for resolution^[128]
• Zoubir, Yahia H. & Daniel Volman, eds. – International dimensions of the Western Sahara conflict^[129][130]