* 1932 ''An Outline of Zen Buddhism'', The Golden Vista Press (32-page pamphlet)
* 1936 ''The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East'', E.P. Dutton {{ISBN|0-8021-3056-9}}
* 1937 ''The Legacy of Asia and Western Man'', University of Chicago Press
* 1940 ''The Meaning of Happiness''. (reprinted, Harper & Row, 1979, {{ISBN|0-06-080178-6}})
* 1944 ''Theologia Mystica: Being the Treatise of Saint Dionysius, Pseudo-Areopagite, on Mystical Theology, Together with the First and Fifth Epistles'', West Park, New York: Holy Cross Press OCLC 2353671
* 1947 ''Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-394-71761-9}}
* 1948 ''Zen'', James Ladd Delkin, Stanford, California
* 1950 ''Easter: Its Story and Meaning'' New York: Schuman
* 1950 ''The Supreme Identity: An Essay on Oriental Metaphysic and the Christian Religion'', Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, OCLC 3429188 {{ISBN|0-394-71835-6}}
* 1953 ''Myth and Ritual in Christianity'', Thames and Hudson, {{ISBN|0-8070-1375-7}}, including essay "God and Satan"
* 1957 ''The Way of Zen'', Pantheon Books {{ISBN|0-375-70510-4}}
* 1958 ''Nature, Man and Woman'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-679-73233-0}}
* 1959 ''Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen'', San Francisco: City Lights Books, ASIN B000F2RQL4
* 1960 ''This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-394-71904-2}}
* 1961 ''Psychotherapy East and West'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-394-71609-4}}
* 1962 ''The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness'', Pantheon Books
* 1963 ''The Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity'', George Braziller
* 1964 ''Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-394-71923-9}}
* 1966
* 1967 ''Nonsense'', illustrations by Greg Irons (a collection of literary nonsense), San Francisco: Stolen Paper Editions OCLC 3992418
* 1968 ''Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal'', Pantheon Books. Also published in Canada in 1974 by Jonathan Cape, {{ISBN|0224009729}}, 0-394-71999-9
* 1970 ''Does It Matter?: Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality'', Pantheon Books, {{ISBN|0-394-71665-5}}
* 1971 ''The Temple of Konarak: Erotic Spirituality'', with photographs by Eliot Elisofon, London: Thames and Hudson. Also published as ''Erotic Spirituality: The Vision of Konarak'', New York: Macmillan
* 1972 ''The Art of Contemplation: A Facsimile Manuscript with Doodles'', Pantheon Books
* , Vintage Books pocket edition 1973, {{ISBN|0-394-71951-4}}, New World Library edition, 2007, {{ISBN|1-57731-584-7}}
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