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]