Libros:
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 (con A. Skjölsvold), 1956
Aku-Aku: the Secrets of Easter Island and the East Pacific (coautor con 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 (bilingüe), 1996
Let the Conquered Speak (edición en castellano 1996 - edición en inglés 1997)
I Adams Fotspor, 1998 (edición en castellano: Tras los pasos de Adán, 2000)
Ingen Grenser, 1999 (con Per Lillieström)
Jakten pa Odin, 2001 (con Per Lillieström)
Documentales:
The Kon-Tiki Expedition (Oscar en 1951 por la National Academic Motion Pictures Arts & Science)
Galapagos Expedition, 1953
Aku-Aku, 1957
The Ra Expeditions (nominado al Oscar en 1971)
The Tigris Expedition, 1979
The Maldive Mystery, 1986
Biografías:
Señor Kon-Tiki, por Arnold Jacoby, 1965
The Kon-Tiki Man, por Christopher Ralling, 1990
Thor Heyerdahl, the Explorer, por Snorre Evensbergert, 1994
