Buchmann, S. 2015. The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, and Biology, and How They Change our Lives, Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 342 pp.
Buchmann, S. 2010. Honey Bees: Letters from the Hive (A History of Bees and Honey), Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, New York, 212 pp. An NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book.
2007. Status of Pollinators in North America. Buchmann was a panelist and co-author. National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, 307 pp.
Buchmann, S. and D. Cohn. 2007. The Bee Tree. An illustrated children's book from Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX. Illustrated by Paul Mirocha. A 2008 Skipping Stones Honor Award Book.
Nina Chambers, Yajaira Gray and S. Buchmann. 2005. Pollinators of the Sonoran Desert, a Field Guide. Tucson, AZ: Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, 83 pp.
Buchmann, S. and G. P. Nabhan. 1997. The Forgotten Pollinators. Island Press, Washington, D.C., 292 pp. A Benjamin Franklin award winning book and Finalist for the 1996 Los Angeles Times Prize for the Best Science Book.
Wulfla Gronenberg, A Raikhelkar, E. Abshire, J. Stevens, E. Epstein, K. Loyola, M. Rauscher and S. Buchmann. 2014. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) learn to discriminate the smell of organic compounds from their respective deuterated isotopomers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B2014 281,20133089, published 22 January 2014.
Rogel Villanueva-Gutierrez, David Roubik, Wilberto Colli-Ucan, Francisco J. Guemez-Ricalde and S. Buchmann. 2013. A Critical View of Colony Losses in Managed Mayan Honey-Making Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in the Heart of Zona Maya. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 86(4):352-362.
Marcus King and S. Buchmann. 2003. Floral Sonication by Bees: Mesosomal Vibration by Bombus and Xylocopa, but Not Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Ejects Pollen from Poricidal Anthers, 76(2):295-305.
Raguso RA, Henzel C, Buchmann SL, et at. 2003. Trumpet flowers of the Sonoran Desert: Floral biology of Peniocereus cacti and sacred Datura. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(6): 877-892.
Roulston TH, Cane JH, Buchmann SL. 2000. What governs protein content of pollen: Pollinator preferences, pollen-pistil interactions, or phylogeny? Ecological Monographs 70(4): 617-643.
Roulston TH, Buchmann SL. 2000. A phylogenetic reconsideration of the pollen starch-pollination correlation. Evolutionary Ecology Research 2(5): 627-643.
Buchmann, S.L. 1987. The Ecology of Oil Flowers and their Bees. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 18(1987):343-369.
Buchmann, S.L. 1983. Buzz pollination in angiosperms. In: Jones & Little "Handbook of experimental pollination biology," pp. 73-113.