| quote  = ''"{Beals} is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America."'' (Time Magazine, April 25, 1938)
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• 1921, The Mexican as he is
• 1923, Rome or death; the story of fascism
• 1923, Mexico; an interpretation (Agrarian land reform in Mexico)
• 1925, Tasks awaiting President Calles of Mexico
• 1926, The church problem in Mexico
• 1927, Brimstone and chili: a book of personal experiences in the Southwest and in Mexico
• 1929, Mexico's new leader
• 1929, Destroying Victor
• 1930, The coming struggle for Latin America
• 1931, Mexican maze, with illustrations by Diego Rivera
• 1932, Porfirio Díaz. Dictator of Mexico
• 1932, Banana gold
• 1933, The Crime of Cuba, with photographs by Walker Evans
• 1934, Fire on the Andes
• 1934, Black river
• 1935, Rifle rule in Cuba
• 1935, The story of Huey P. Long
• 1936, The stones awake: a novel of Mexico
• 1936, Prologue to Cuban freedom
• 1937, America south
• 1937, The new genre of Roberto de la Selva
• 1937, The drug eaters of the High Andes
• 1938, Glass houses, ten years of free-lancing
• 1939, American earth; the biography of a nation
• 1939, The coming struggle for Latin America
• 1940, Pan America
• 1943, Dawn over the Amazon
• 1948, Lands of the dawning morrow: the awakening from Rio Grande to Cape Horn
• 1949, The long land: Chile
• 1953, First men of America
• 1953, Stephen F. Austin, Father of Texas
• 1955, Our Yankee heritage: New England's contribution to American civilazation
• 1956, Adventure of the western sea, illustrated by Jacob Landau
• 1956, Taste of glory; a novel
• 1957, John Eliot, the man who loved the Indians (July 3l, 1604 — May 20, 1690)
• 1958, House in Mexico
• 1960, Cuba's Revolution: The First Year
• 1960, Brass-knuckle crusade; the great Know-Nothing conspiracy, 1820—1860
• 1961, Nomads and empire builders; native peoples and cultures of South America
• 1962, Cyclone Carry, the story of Carry Nation
• 1963, Latin America: world in revolution
• 1963, Eagles of the Andes: South American struggles for independence
• 1965, War within a war; the Confederacy against itself
• 1967, Land of the Mayas; yesterday and today
• 1968, The great revolt and its leaders: the history of popular American uprisings in the 1890s
• 1969, The Case of Leon Trotsky [Lev Davydovi? Trockij]: report of hearings on the charges made against him in the Moscow trails
• 1970, Stories told by the Aztecs before the Spaniards came
• 1970, The nature of revolution
• 1970, Great guerrilla warriors
• 1970, Colonial Rhode Island
• 1973, The incredible Incas: yesterday and today.