The report consists of a selection of 1,094 references (many of which are annotated) to worldwide desert literature for the period 1965-1968, together with an appendix of 385 references published before 1965, with the emphasis on vegetation, fauna, geomorphology and surface hydrology, weather and climate, surface materials, geohydrology, regional geography, and desert coastal areas, as well as a limited number dealing with various aspects of the human, cultural, economic, and political geography of deserts. Titles have been permuted to provide an index of significant keywords. (Author).