Redigerer Ian Buruma (avsnitt)

== Verk ==
* {{cite book|title=The Japanese Tattoo|date=1980|publisher=Weatherhill|isbn=978-0834801493}} sammen med [[Donald Richie]]
* {{cite book|title= Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes |date=1983|publisher=New American Library|isbn=978-0452010543}}
* {{cite book|title=A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture|date=1984|publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]|location=London|isbn=978-0224020497}}
* ''Tokyo: Form and Spirit'' (1986) sammen med James Brandon, [[Kenneth Frampton]], Martin Friedman, Donald Richie  ISBN 978-0-8109-1690-6
* ''God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey'' (1989) ISBN 978-0-7538-1089-7
* ''Great Cities of the World: Hong Kong'' (1991)
* ''Playing the Game'' (1991) novel ISBN 978-0-374-52633-7
* ''The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and in Japan'' (1994) ISBN 978-0-452-01156-4. På norsk: ''Vekten av skyld. Krigsminner i Tyskland og Japan'' (Press forlag, 2009).
* Introduction for ''Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art'' (1998) av Jodi Cobb ISBN 978-0-375-70180-1
* ''Voltaire's Coconuts, or Anglomania in Europe'' (UK title) (1998) or ''Anglomania: a European Love Affair'' (US title) (1999) ISBN 978-0-7538-0954-9
* ''The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West'' (2000) compilation ISBN 978-0-571-21414-3
* ''De neo-romantiek van schrijvers in exil'' ("Neoromanticism of writers in exile") (2000) ISBN 90-446-0028-1
* ''Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing'' (2001) ISBN 978-0-679-78136-3
* ''Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle 1853–1964'' (2003) ISBN 978-0-679-64085-1
* ''Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies'' (2004) with [[Avishai Margalit]] ISBN 978-0-14-303487-2
* ''Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance'' (2006) ISBN 978-1-59420-108-0 winner of The [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize]] for the Best Current Interest Book. Norsk utgave ''Mord i Amsterdam. Det liberale Europa og drapet på Theo van Gogh'' (Gyldendal, 2008)
* ''Conversations with John Schlesinger'' (2006) ISBN 0-375-75763-5
* Commentary on the History of China for the time period of [[The Last Emperor]], [[The Criterion Collection]] 2008 DVDs (ASIN: B000ZM1MIW, ISBN 978-1-60465-014-3).
* ''The China Lover'' (2008) novel ISBN 978-1-59420-194-3
* ''Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents'' (2010) ISBN 978-0-691-13489-5
* ''Grenzen aan de vrijheid: van De Sade tot Wilders'' (''Limits to Freedom: From [[Marquis de Sade|De Sade]] to [[Geert Wilders|Wilders]]'') (2010) ISBN 978-90-477-0262-7 – Essay for the Month of Philosophy in the Netherlands.
* {{cite book|title=Year Zero: A History of 1945|date=2013|publisher=The [[Penguin Press]]|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-1594204364|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeRf8cvi80AC}} Norsk utgave: ''År null. En fortelling om 1945'' (Forlaget Press, 2015)
* ''Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War'' (2016)
* {{cite book|title=A Tokyo Romance|url=https://archive.org/details/tokyoromancememo0000buru|year=2018|publisher=The Penguin Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-1101981412}}