The bibliography of Botswana is a list of major publications about the Republic of Botswana and the history of its territory prior to statehood.

• Chirenje, J. Mutero (1977). A History of Northern Botswana, 1850-1910. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN  978-0-8386-1537-9.
• Morton, Barry; Ramsay, Jeff (2018). Historical Dictionary of Botswana (Fifth ed.). Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN  978-1-5381-1133-8.
• Schapera, Isaac; Comaroff, John L. (1991) [1953]. The Tswana. Kegan Paul International. ISBN  978-0-7103-0421-6.
• Stevens, Richard P. (1975). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Botswana. Scarecrow Press. ISBN  978-0-8108-0857-7.
• Tlou, Thomas; Campbell, Alec C. (1984). History of Botswana. Macmillan Botswana. ISBN  978-0-333-36531-1.

• Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta (2018). Botswana – A Modern Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73144-5. ISBN  978-3-319-73144-5.
• Leith, James Clark (2005). Why Botswana Prospered. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN  978-0-7735-2821-5.

• Henk, Dan (2007). The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN  978-0-230-61044-6.
• Jackson, Ashley (1999). Botswana, 1939-1945: An African Country at War. Clarendon Press. ISBN  978-0-19-820764-1.

• Dale, Richard (1995). Botswana's Search for Autonomy in Southern Africa. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN  978-0-313-29571-3.
• Fawcus, Peter; Tilbury, Alan (2000). Botswana: The Road to Independence. Pula Press. ISBN  978-99912-61-68-3.
• Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf (2012). The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies. Berghahn Books. ISBN  978-0-85745-298-6.
• Lekorwe, Mogopodi H. (1998). Botswana, Politics and Society. J.L. van Schaik. ISBN  978-0-627-02231-9.
• Makgala, Christian John (2006). Elite Conflict in Botswana: A History. Africa Institute of South Africa. ISBN  978-0-7983-0192-3.
• Munger, Edwin S. (1965). Bechuanaland: Pan-African Outpost Or Bantu Homeland?. Oxford University Press.
• Parson, Jack (1990). Succession to High Office in Botswana: Three Case Studies. Ohio University Center for International Studies. ISBN  978-0-89680-157-8.
• Picard, Louis A. (1987). The Politics of Development in Botswana: A Model for Success?. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN  978-0-931477-95-9.
• Throup, David W (2011). Botswana: Assessing Risks to Stability. Center for Strategic and International Studies. ISBN  978-0-89206-635-3.
• Samatar, Abdi Ismail (1999). An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development. Heinemann. ISBN  978-0-325-00068-8.
• Sillery, Anthony (2023) [1974]. Botswana: A Short Political History. Taylor & Francis. ISBN  978-1-003-80411-6.
• Stedman, Stephen John, ed. (2023) [1993]. Botswana: The Political Economy of Democratic Development. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN  978-1-68585-638-0.
• Vaughan, Olufemi (2003). Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880s–1990s. Africa World Press. ISBN  978-1-59221-094-7.

• Livingston, Julie (2005). Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. Indiana University Press. ISBN  978-0-253-11149-4.

• Denbow, James R.; Thebe, Phenyo C. (2006). Culture and Customs of Botswana. Greenwood Press. ISBN  978-0-313-33178-7. OCLC  62118271.