Bibliography of Paraguay

Geography and natural history

• Attenborough, David, Zoo Quest in Paraguay
• Durrell, Gerald, The Drunken Forest
• Hayes, Floyd E., Status, Distribution and Biogeography of the Birds of Paraguay
• Kerr, John Graham, A Naturalist in the Chaco
• Lewis, Daniel K., A South American Frontier: The Tri-Border Region

  History

General

• Lambert, Peter & Nickson, Andrew, The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics
• Lewis, Paul H., Socialism, Liberalism and Dictatorship in Paraguay
• Macintyre, Ben, Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elizabeth Nietzsche
• Mora, Frank O. and Cooney, Jerry W., Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies
• Nickson, Andrew, Historical Dictionary of Paraguay
• Nickson, Andrew, Paraguay: An Annotated Bibliography
• Souter, Gavin, A Peculiar People: the Australians in Paraguay
• Stoesz, Edward, Like a Mustard Seed: Mennonites in Paraguay
• Washburn, Charles Ames, The History of Paraguay
• Whitehead, Anne, Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay

  Colonial era

• Garrett, Victoria L. and Loaeza, Pablo García, The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata
• Gott, Richard, Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed
• López, Adelberto, The Colonial History of Paraguay: The Revolt of the Comuneros, 1721-1735
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, European Discovery of America: Southern Voyages, A.D.1492-1616

  The Jesuits and the reducciones

• Abdou, Sélim, The Jesuit Republic of the Guaranis and its Heritage
• Caraman, Philip, The Lost Paradise: The Jesuit Republic in South America
• Cunninghame-Graham, Robert Bontine, A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767
• Jaenike, William F., Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the Jesuits
• Koebel, William Henry, In Jesuit Land: The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay
• McNaspy, C. J., Lost Cities of Paraguay: Art and Architecture of the Jesuit Reductions, 1607-1767
• Sarreal, Julia, The Guarani and their missions
• Satterlee, D., The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence

  Paraguay in the 19th and early 20th centuries

• Barret, William Edmund, Woman on Horseback: the Biography of Francisco Lopez and Eliza Lynch
• Brodksy, Alvin, Madame Lynch and Friend: The True Account of an Irish Adventuress and the Dictator of Paraguay Who Destroyed That American Nation
• Burton, Richard, Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay
• Chesterton, Bridget María, The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936
• Doratioto, Francisco, Maldita Guerra: Nueva Historia de la Guerra del Paraguay
• Esposito, Gabriele, Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-70: Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
• Escudero, Antonio Gutiérrez, Francisco Solano Lopez: Napoleon de Paraguay
• Hooker, Terry D., Armies of the 19th Century: The Americas - The Paraguayan War
• Kohn, Roger, Weep, Weep, Grey Bird, Weep: The Paraguayan War 1864-1870
• Kraay, Hendrick and Whigham, Thomas L., I Die with My Country: Perspectives on the Paraguayan War, 1864-1870
• Leuchars, Chris, To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
• Lewis, Paul H., Political Parties and Generations in Paraguay's Liberal Era, 1869-1940
• Plá, Josefina, The British in Paraguay, 1850-1870
• Rees, Sián, The Shadow of Elisa Lynch
• Saeger, James Schofield, Francisco Solano López and the Ruination of Paraguay: Honor and Egocentrism
• Thompson, George, The War in Paraguay: With a Historical Sketch of the Country and Its People and Notes Upon the Military Engineering of the War
• Warren, Harris Gaylord, Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
• Warren, Harris Gaylord, Rebirth of the Paraguayan Republic: The First Colorado Era, 1878-1904
• Whigham, Thomas, The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct
• Williams, John Hoyt, The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800-1870

  The Chaco War

• English, Adrian J., The Green Hell: A Concise History of the Chaco War Between Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932-35
• Farcau, Bruce, The Chaco War: Bolivia and Paraguay, 1932-1935
• Hagedorn, Dan and Sapienza, Antonio L., Aircraft of the Chaco War 1928-1935
• Quesada, Alejandro, The Chaco War 1932-35

  Modern history

• Alegria, Claribel and Flakoll, Darwin, Death of Somoza
• Lambert, Peter & Nickson, Andrew, The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay
• Lewis, Paul, Paraguay Under Stroessner
• Miranda, Carlos R., The Stroessner Era: Authoritarian Rule in Paraguay
• O'Shaughnessy, Hugh, The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the Making of a Nation
• Painter, James, Paraguay in the 1970s: Continuity and Change in the Political Process
• White, Richard Alan, Breaking Silence: Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights

  Culture

Cuisine

• Diaz, Milton Rui, Cocina Paraguaya
• Van Houten, Lynn, Flavors of Paraguay: A Cookbook

  Indigenous Paraguayans

• Aren, Richard, Genocide in Paraguay
• Batten, Mary, Anthropologist: Scientist of the People
• Bessire, L, Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle Of Ayoreo Life
• Blaser, Mario, Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
• Britton, A. Scott, Guarani-English/English-Guarani Concise Dictionary
• Clastres, Helene, The Land-without-Evil: Tupi-Guarani Prophetism
• Clastres, Pierre, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
• Duckworth, Cheryl, Land and Dignity in Paraguay
• Escobar, Ticio, The Curse of Nemur: In Search of the Art, Myth and Ritual of the Ishir
• Foote, Nicola and Horst, René D. Harder, Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, Nation, and Community during the Liberal Period
• Ganson, Barbara, The Guarani Under Spanish Rule in the Rio de la Plata
• Gaska, Henryk, Constructing Ava Guarani Ethnic Identity: The Emergence of Indian Organization in Paraguay
• Grubb, Wilfred Barbrooke, An Unknown People in an Unknown Land: An Account of the Life and Customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco...
• Hill, Kim and Hurtado, A. Magdalena, Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People
• Horst, René Harder, The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay
• Keeney, Bradford, Guarani Shamans of the Forest
• Maybury-Lewis, David, The Indian Peoples of Paraguay: Their Plight and Their Prospects
• Miller, Elmer S., Peoples of the Gran Chaco
• Olivera, David A. Galeano, La Idioma y Cultura de Guarani en Paraguay
• Olson, James Stuart, The Indians of Central and South America: an Ethnohistorical Dictionary
• Reed, Richard, Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development
• Reed, Richard K., Prophets of Agroforestry: Guarani Communities and Commercial Gathering
• Renshaw, John, The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy
• Simoneau, Karin and Wilbert, Johannes, Folk Literature of the Ayoreo Indians
• Simoneau, Karin and Wilbert, Johannes, Folk Literature of the Chamacoco Indians

  Music

• Stover, Richard D., Six Silver Moonbeams: The Life and Times of Agustín Barrios Mangoré

  Travel and tourism

• Boschmann, Erwin, Paraguay - A Tour Guide
• Box, Ben, Footprint Focus Guide: Paraguay
• Carver, Robert, Paradise with Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay
• Crespo, Martin, Magic Hour: Hora Magica en Asuncion
• Gimlette, John, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay
• Goldberg, Romy Natalia, Other Places Travel Guide: Paraguay
• Hebblethwaite, Margaret, Bradt Travel Guide: Paraguay
• Iyer, Pico, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World
• Meyer, Gordon, The River and the People
• Smith, Julia Llwellyn, Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene