Bücher:
Pa 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 (mit A. Skjölsvold), 1956
Aku-Aku: the Secrets of Easter Island and the East Pacific (Co-Autoren E.N. Ferdon, B.Mulloy, A. Skjölsvold and C.S. Smith) Vol. I:The Archaeology of Easter Island,1961, Vol. II: Miscellaneous Papers, 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 (zweisprachig), 1996
Let the Conquered Speak (Spanische Ausgabe 1996- Englische Ausgabe 1997)
I Adams Fotspor, 1998 (Spanische Ausgabe: Tras los pasos de Adán, 2000)
Ingen Grenser, 1999 (mit Per Lillieström)
Jakten pa Odin, 2001 (mit Per Lillieström)
Dokumentarfilme:
The Kon-Tiki Expedition (Oscar 1951 durch die National Academic Motion Pictures Arts & Science)
Galapagos Expedition, 1953
Aku-Aku, 1957
The Ra Expeditions (Oscarnominierung 1971)
The Tigris Expedition, 1979
The Maldive Mystery, 1986
Biographien:
Señor Kon-Tiki, von Arnold Jacoby, 1965
The Kon-Tiki Man, von Christopher Ralling, 1990
Thor Heyerdahl, the Explorer, von Snorre Evensbergert, 1994
