There are 107 books by William Morton Wheeler on BookOrb. A strong starting point is The social insects (1928). The bibliography below is in publication order, with series grouped in reading order.

Standalone books

  1. 1 The flora of Milwaukee County 1888 · 190 pages
  2. 2 A contribution to insect embryology 1893 · 160 pages
  3. 3 A genus of maritime Dolichopodidae new to America 1897 · 152 pages
  4. 4 A new genus of Dolichopodidae from Florida 1898 · 220 pages
  5. 5 Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the "Theoria Generationis" 1899 · 284 pages
  6. 6 New species of Dolichopodidae from the United States 1899 · 84 pages
  7. 7 The free-swimming copepods of the Woods Hole region 1900 · 192 pages
  8. 8 The female of Eciton sumichrasti norton 1900 · 574 pages
  9. 9 The habits of myrmecophila nebracensis Bruner 1900 · 115 pages
  10. 10 Notices Biologiques sur les Fourmis Mexicaines 1901 · 205 pages
  11. 11 New agricultural ants from Texas 1902 · 392 pages
  12. 12 Extraordinary females in three species of Formica, with remarks on mutation in the Formicidae 1903 · 651 pages
  13. 13 A revision of the North American Ants of the Genus Leptothorax Mayr 1903 · 260 pages
  14. 14 The origin of female and worker ants from the eggs of parthenogenetic workers 1903 · 833 pages
  15. 15 On the pupation of ants and the feasibility of establishing the Guatemalan Kelep or Cotton-Weevil Ant in the United States 1904 · 440 pages
  16. 16 The American ants of the subgenus Colobopsis 1904 · 158 pages
  17. 17 The North American ants of the Genus Dolichoderus 1905 · 319 pages
  18. 18 An annotated list of the ants of New Jersey 1905 · 403 pages
  19. 19 Worker ants with vestiges of wings 1905 · 408 pages
  20. 20 The ants of the Bermudas 1906 · 352 pages
  21. 21 An ethological study of certain mal-adjustments in the relations of ants to plants 1906 · 418 pages
  22. 22 On certain modified hairs peculiar to the arts of arid regions 1907 · 202 pages
  23. 23 The Polymorphism of ants 1907 · 93 pages
  24. 24 Notes on a new Guest-ant, Leptothorax Glacialis 1907 · 83 pages
  25. 25 The ants of Casco Bay, Maine 1908 · 645 pages
  26. 26 A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae 1911 · 175 pages
  27. 27 Ants collected in Grenada, W.I. by Mr. C.T. Brues 1911 · 172 pages
  28. 28 The ants of Cuba 1913 · 505 pages
  29. 29 Corrections and additions to "List of type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae 1913 · 83 pages
  30. 30 Some additions to the North American Ant-Fauna 1915 · 421 pages
  31. 31 Two new genera of myrmicine ants from Brazil 1915 · 491 pages
  32. 32 The new genera of Myrmicine ants from Brazil 1915 · 491 pages
  33. 33 Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F.W. Urich, and others 1916 · 330 pages
  34. 34 The ants of the Phillips exedition to Palestine during 1914 1916 · 174 pages
  35. 35 The ants of the Phillips expedition to Palestine during 1914 1916 · 174 pages
  36. 36 The mountain ants of western North America 1917 · 569 pages
  37. 37 Jamaican ants collected by Prof. C.T. Brues 1917 · 471 pages
  38. 38 The ants of the genus Opisthopsis emery 1918 · 362 pages
  39. 39 A study of some ant larvae 1918 · 343 pages
  40. 40 The ants of the Galapagos islands ... 1919 · 310 pages
  41. 41 The ants of Borneo 1919 · 147 pages
  42. 42 Additions to the Ant Fauna of the West Indies and Central America 1920 · 439 pages
  43. 43 The feeding habits of Pseudomyrmine and other ants 1920 · 279 pages
  44. 44 Chinese ants 1921 · 547 pages
  45. 45 Observations on Army ants in British Guiana 1921 · 328 pages
  46. 46 Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants 1922 · 710 pages
  47. 47 A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region 1922 · 1,004 pages
  48. 48 Social life among the insects 1923 · 375 pages
  49. 49 The social insects 1928 · 426 pages
  50. 50 Foibles of insects and men 1928 · 217 pages
  51. 51 Emergent evolution and the development of societies 1928 · 80 pages
  52. 52 Demons of the dust 1930 · 378 pages
  53. 53 Colony-founding among ants 1933 · 179 pages
  54. 54 A study of the ant genera novomessor and veromessor 1934 · 387 pages
  55. 55 Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba 1937 · 465 pages
  56. 56 Essays in philosophical biology 1939 · 261 pages
  57. 57 Studies of neotropical ant-plants and their ants 1942 · 262 pages
  58. 58 The Ants of the Baltic Amber 2018 · 160 pages
  59. 59 Contribution Insect Embryology 2023 · 174 pages
  60. 60 Impostors among animals 378 pages

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In publication order: 1. The flora of Milwaukee County (1888), 2. A contribution to insect embryology (1893), 3. A genus of maritime Dolichopodidae new to America (1897), 4. A new genus of Dolichopodidae from Florida (1898), 5. Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the "Theoria Generationis" (1899), 6. New species of Dolichopodidae from the United States (1899), 7. The free-swimming copepods of the Woods Hole region (1900), 8. The female of Eciton sumichrasti norton (1900), 9. The habits of myrmecophila nebracensis Bruner (1900), 10. Notices Biologiques sur les Fourmis Mexicaines (1901), 11. New agricultural ants from Texas (1902), 12. Extraordinary females in three species of Formica, with remarks on mutation in the Formicidae (1903), 13. A revision of the North American Ants of the Genus Leptothorax Mayr (1903), 14. The origin of female and worker ants from the eggs of parthenogenetic workers (1903), 15. On the pupation of ants and the feasibility of establishing the Guatemalan Kelep or Cotton-Weevil Ant in the United States (1904), and 45 more.