Alter, Jonathan (2020). His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Auten, Brian J. (2008). Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN978-0826266491.
Berggren, D. Jason; Rae, Nicol C. (2006). "Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: Faith, Foreign Policy, and an Evangelical Presidential Style". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 36 (4): 606–632. doi:10.1111/j.1741-5705.2006.02570.x. ISSN0360-4918.
Bird, Kai (2021). The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN978-0-451-49523-5.
Busch, Andrew E. (2005). Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Carleton, David, and Michael Stohl. "The foreign policy of human rights: Rhetoric and reality from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan." Human Rights Quarterly 7 (1985): 205–229 online.
Dumbrell, John (1995). The Carter Presidency: A Re-Evaluation. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN0-7190-3617-8.
Eizenstat, Stuart E. (2018). President Carter: The White House Years. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN978-1-2501-0455-7. (Although Eizenstat was Carter's domestic affairs advisor, this book is a history of the Carter presidency rather than a memoir)
Frisch, Scott A.; Kelly, Sean Q. (2011). Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press. ISBN978-1-60497-778-3.
Gillon, Steven M. (1992). The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN0-231-07630-4.
————— (2009). An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN978-0-8014-4815-7.
————————— (2022). Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: Power and Human Rights, 1975-2020. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-758156-8.
Hahn, Dan F. (1992). "The rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980". In Windt, Theodore; Ingold, Beth (eds.). Essays in Presidential Rhetoric (3rded.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. pp.331–365. ISBN0-8403-7568-9.
Jorden, William J. (1984). Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN0-292-76469-3.
Kaufman, Burton I.; Kaufman, Scott (2006). The Presidency of James Earl Carter. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN0-7006-1471-0.
Kaufman, Scott (2008). Plans Unraveled: The Foreign Policy of the Carter Administration. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN978-0-87580-390-6.
Kaufman, Diane; Kaufman, Scott (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Carter Era. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN978-0-8108-7822-8.
Keefer, Edward C., ed. (2017). Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977-1981. Washington, DC: Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense. ISBN978-0160937552.
Muravchik, Joshua (1986). The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN0-8191-5108-4.
Robins, Glenn (2024). A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter Put Viet Nam Veterans' Issues on the National Agenda. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Roessner, Amber (2020). Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN978-0-8071-7079-3.
Rosenbaum, Herbert D.; Ugrinsky, Alexej, eds. (1993). The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN0-313-28845-3.
——————————; ———————, eds. (1994). Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN0-313-28844-5.
Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan (2011). Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-17666-8.
Sargent, Daniel J. (2015). A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-539547-1.
Smith, Gaddis (1986). Morality, Reason, and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN0-8090-7017-0.
Strieff, Daniel (2015). Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: The Politics of Presidential Diplomacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978-1-137-49946-2.
Strong, Robert A. (Fall 1986). "Recapturing leadership: The Carter administration and the crisis of confidence". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 16 (3): 636–650.
——————— (2000). Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN0-8071-2445-1.
Talbott, Strobe (1979). Endgame: The Inside Story of Salt II. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN0-06-014213-8.
Thornton, Richard C. (1991). The Carter Years: Toward a New Global Order. New York: Paragon House. ISBN1-55778-871-5.
Ward, Jon (2019). Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party. New York: Twelve Books. ISBN978-1-4555-9138-1.
Williams, Daniel K. (2020). The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN978-0-7006-2912-1.
Woodroofe, Louise (2013). "Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden": The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Détente. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN978-1-60635-184-0.
Carter, Jimmy (2002). The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture: Delivered in Oslo on the 10th of December, 2002. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-7432-5068-9.
Carter, Jimmy (2006). Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World. [London]: Duckworth. ISBN978-0-7156-3610-7. UK edition of Our Endangered Values.
Lafeber, Walter. "From confusion to Cold War: The memoirs of the Carter administration". Diplomatic History 8.1 (1984): 1–12 JSTOR44254241.
Thomas, Norman C. "The Carter Administration Memoirs: A Review Essay". Western Political Quarterly 39.2 (1986): 348–360. JSTOR448303.
Memoirs by Carter Administration aides and officials
Brzezinski, Zbigniew (1983). Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN0374236631.
Thompson, Kenneth W., ed. (1990). The Carter Presidency: Fourteen Intimate Perspectives of Jimmy Carter. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN978-0-8191-7813-8.