Here are some English-language books about Kuwait that were published between 1910 and 1990, mostly found on Abebooks:

• (1912) Through the land of the Wahhabis on the back of a camel, RAUNKIÆR Barclay
• (1935) Black Tents of Arabia, Carl R Raswan
• (1940) Sons of Sinbad, Alan Villiers
• (1951) Beyond Euphrates, Freya Stark
• (1955) Lands of Aladdin, Hakon Mielche
• (1955) Wild Flowers of Bahrain and Kuwait, Violet Dickson
• (1956) Kuwait and her Neighbors, HRP Dickson
• (1957) The Golden Bubble, Roderic Owen
• (1958) My Arabian Days and Nights, Eleanor T. Calverley, M. D.
• (1959) The Arab of the Desert, HRP Dickson
• (1958) Kuwait Was My Home, Zahra Freeth
• (1960) Kuwait Today: A Welfare State, Ministry of Guidance and Information of Kuwait
• (1962) Cadillacs und Coca-Cola, John Mueller
• (1964) The Kuwait Urbanization, Saba George Shiber
• (1964) Kuwait Tourist Guide, Ministry of Guidance and Information
• (1965) The Oil of Kuwait
• (1969) Looking for Dilmun, Geoffrey Bibby
• (1970) Dishes from Kuwait, Fatimah Hussain Mutawwa
• (1970) Kuwait Miracle on the Desert, David C. Cooke
• (1970) Archaeological Investigations on the Island of Failaka, Ministry of Guidance and Information
• (1971) Forty Years in Kuwait, Violet Dickson
• (1971) Kuwait Journey, John Daniels
• (1972) A New Look at Kuwait, Zahra Freeth
• (1972) Kuwait: Prospect and Reality, Zahra Freeth
• (1976) Kuwait, Ralph Shaw
• (1978) Traditional Architecture in Kuwait And The Northern Gulf, Lewcock, Ronald & Zahra Freeth
• (1979) Wizr, Keith Wells
• (1979) The Middle Eastern States and the Law of the Sea, Ali El-Hakim
• (1981) Political Socialization in the Gulf, Faisal Al-Salem
• (1981) The Absorptive Capacity of Kuwait, Ragaei El Mallakh and Jacob K. Atta
• (1981) Birds of the Arabian Gulf – The Natural History of the Arabian Gulf Series, Jennings, Michael C:
• (1983) Kuwait Images, Gustavo Ferrari
• (1983) Modern History of Kuwait, Abu Hakima
• (1984) Merchant Families of Kuwait, JRL Carter
• (1985) Immigrant Labour in Kuwait, Al-Moosa, Abdulrasool; McLachlan, K.S.
• (1985) The Evolving Culture of Kuwait, Jennifer Scarce
• (1985) The Voyage of Al Ghazeer, Yacoub Al Hijji
• (1986) Russia & Arabia : Soviet foreign policy toward the Arabian Peninsula, Mark Katz
• (1987) Discovering Kuwait’s Wildlife, Clayton, David and Wells, Keith
• (1988) Kuwait Vanguard of the Gulf, Peter Mansfield
• (1989) Arabian Peninsula

In her work Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib writes that, “In 1960 the government hired Palestinian-American architect Saba George Shiber in the Ministry of Public Works (to be planning adviser and official architect). He was shocked by what he saw. He believed that Kuwait was an unfortunate victim of modern planning, and he described the impact of oil on its urban and social landscapes as ‘meteoric, radical, ruthless.’” She continues that Shiber, “felt foreign “experts” had led Kuwait down the wrong path of urban development, he lamented the destruction of the organically formed pre-oil town and its replacement with abstract planning and architectural influences that had no place, precedent, or purpose. His main contribution was the development of a new central business district in the heart of the city… only half of his plan was ever implemented.” In 1964, Shiber published The Kuwait Urbanization, which the following images come from.

In 1968 he published Recent Arab City Growth:

Here are some more English-language books about Kuwait that were published between 1990 and the present, mostly found on Abebooks:

• (1990) Kuwait’s foreign policy, Assiri, Abdul-Reda
• (1990) The Legendary Claims of Iraqi Historical Rights in the State of Kuwait, Mustafa, Ahmed Abdel Rehim; El Aqqad, Salah & Nawwar, Abdul Aziz Soliman
• (1990) U.S. Hands Off the Mideast!, Fidel Castro
• (1991) Operation Desert Sabre: The Desert Rat’s Liberation of Kuwait, by Bob Morrison
• (1991) The Cloud Over Kuwait, Marwan Iskandar
• (1993) Kuwait’s Age of Sail: Pearl Divers, Sea Captains, and Shipbuilders Past and Present, Claudia Al-Rashoud
• (1993) Portrait of Kuwait, Abd-El-Bary, Philomena
• (1994) The Iraqi Aggression On Kuwait: The Truth. and the Tragedy
• (1994) Kuwait Air Force
• (1995) Wildflowers of Kuwait, Linda Shuaib
• (1995) Voice of the Oud, J.S. Rajab
• (1995) Kuwait Arts and Architecture, Arlene Fullerton
• (1995) Kuwaiti Oil Fires : Regional Environmental Perspectives, Tahir Husain
• (1997) Dame Violet Dickson, Claudia Al-Rashoud
• (1997) New Vision of Kuwait, Godfrey Goodwin
• (1998) The Origins of Kuwait, BJ Slot
• (1998) Kuwait by the First Photographers, William Facey
• (1998) The Arabian Mission’s Story, Lewis R.
• (1999) The Echo of Kuwait Creativity, Hayfa Muhammad Sanusi
• (1998) History of Postal Services in Kuwait, Muhammad Abd al-Hadi Jamal
• (2001) Tareq Rajab and Development of Fine Art in Kuwait
• (2003) Art in Exile, Constance Whitney
• (2009) Shipmasters of Kuwait, Bourisly, Khaled H.
• (2010) Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic, Robert Carter and Harriet Crawford
• (2010) Kuwait and the Sea, Yacoub Yusuf Al-Hijji
• (2011) Ras Al Zour, Margery Deemer
• (2012) Kuwait in the Illustrated London News Magazine, Abdullah Yousef Al-Ghunaim
• (2013) Mubarak Al-Sabah: Foundation of Kuwait, Souad Al-Sabah
• (2014) Kuwait in the Early Centuries of Islam, Derek Kennet
• (2015) Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah: The Transformation of Kuwait, Souad Al-Sabah
• (2015) An Illustrated History of Kuwait, Khalid Al Massad
• (2016) Kuwait Transformed, Farah Al-Nakib
• (2016) Modern Architecture Kuwait, 1949-1989
• (2017) Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait
• (2019) Kuwait through the Dickson Family’s Lens, Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Habib
• (2021) Iridescent Kuwait, Laura Hindelang
• (2021) Pan-Arab Modernism
• (2022) Where Butterflies Fill The Sky, Zahra Marwan