Biografier
- Señor Kon-Tiki - av Arnold Jacoby, 1965
- The Kon-Tiki Man - av Christopher Ralling, 1990
- Thor Heyerdahl, the Explorer - av Snorre Evensbergert, 1994
- I Adams fotspor - av Thor Heyerdahl (selvbiografi), 1998
- Thor Heyerdahl. Mannen og havet - av Ragnar Kvam jr., 2005
- Thor Heyerdahl. Mannen og verden - av Ragnar Kvam jr., 2008
- Thor Heyerdahl. Mannen og mytene - av Ragnar Kvam jr., 2013
Bøker
- På Jakt efter Paradiset, 1938
- The Kon-Tiki Expedition, 1948
- American Indians in the Pacific: the Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition, 1952
- Archaeological Evidence of pre-Spanish Visits to the Galapagos Islands (with A. Skjölsvold), 1956
- Aku-Aku: the Secrets of Easter Island and the East Pacific. (co-author with E.N. Ferdon, B.Mulloy, A. Skjölsvold and C.S. Smith)
- The Archaeology of Easter Island, Vol. I, 1961
- Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II, 1965
- Sea Routes to Polynesia, 1968
- The Ra Expeditions, 1970
- Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature, 1974
- Art of Easter Island, 1975
- Zwischen den Kontinenten, 1975
- Early Man and the Ocean, 1978
- The Tigris Expedition, 1980
- The Maldive Mystery, 1986
- Easter Island: A Mystery Solved, 1989
- Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru’s Forgotten City, 1995
- Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day, 1996
- La Navegación Marítima en el Antiguo Perú/ Seafaring in Ancient Peru (biling.), 1996
- Let the Conquered Speak (Spanish edition Perú, 1996- English edition 1997)
- I Adams Fotspor, 1998
- The Thor Heyerdahl Institute, Thor Heyerdahl`s Kon-Tiki in New Light. Editor Ingjerd Hoem, professor ved Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO. 2014. Published as Volume 14 of The Kon-Tiki Museum Occasional Papers
Filmer
- Kon-Tiki 2012 (Oscar nominated) Se trailer for Kon-Tiki 2012
- The Kon-Tiki Expedition (Oscar Award National Academic Motion Pictures Arts & Science 1951), 1950
- Galapagos Expedition, 1953
- Aku-Aku,1957
- The Ra Expeditions (Oscar nominated 1972), 1972
- The Tigris Expedition, 1979
- The Maldive Mystery, 1986
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