* The Idea of the Modern, 1950
* Irrational Man:A Study in Existential Philosophy, 1958
* Filosofi under det tjugonde århundradet, 1962
* What Is Existentialism?, 1964 (redaktör)
* Tid, existens och historia:The Philosophical Anthropology of Karl Jaspers, 1966 (översatt från tyska)
* Truth is Our Passion:The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch, 1968
* The Illusion of Technique, 1978
Religiösa och kulturella ämnen
* Lilies of the Field, 1962 (manus, baserat på filmen från 1963)
* Death of the Soul:From Freud to Heidegger, 1986 (postum)
essäer och litteraturkritik
* Samuel Johnsons prosastil (1941)
* Vad är litteratur? (1941)
* The Modern Spirit (1946)
* The Coming Forum of Religion (1946)
* The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1947)
* Partisan Review (1948)
* The Moment of the Modern Mind:A Collection of Critical Essays (1949)
* The Failure of the Intellectuals (1949)
* Andens frukter (1949)
* Zen Buddhism:Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki (1956)
* Zen och västerlandet (1956)
* The American Intellectual:A Survey (1959)
* The End of the Liberal Era:A Study of Changes in American Political Thought (1961)
* Irrational Man:A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)
* The Process of Existential Psychotherapy:A Clinical Interpretation of Existentialism and its Relation to Psychotherapy (1961)
* The Death of Narcissism:A New Ethics for Modern Man (1962)
* Tid, existens och historia:The Philosophical Anthropology of Karl Jaspers (1966)
* The Voices of Time:A Cooperative Survey of Man's Views of Time as expressed by the Sciences and by the Humanities (1966)
* Sanningen är vår passion:Ernst Blochs filosofi (1968)
* The Illusion of Technique (1978)
* The Death of the Soul:From Freud to Heidegger (1986)
* Death and the Life of Symbol:The Mystery of Meaning in Human Existence (1987)
* The New Humanism:A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century (1990)