Chính luận

• A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812–22 (1957)
• Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957)
• The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy (1961)
• The Troubled Partnership: A Re-Appraisal of the Atlantic Alliance (1965)
• American Foreign Policy: Three Essays (1969)
• For the Record: Selected Statements 1977–1980 (1981)
• Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays 1982–1984 (1985)
• Diplomacy (1994)
• Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow (1999)
• Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (2001)
• Vietnam: A Personal History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2002)
• Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises: Based on the Record of Henry Kissinger's Hitherto Secret Telephone Conversations (2003)
• On China (Bàn về Trung Quốc, 2011)
• World Order (Trật tự thế giới, 2014)

Tự truyện

• The White House Years (Những năm tháng ở Nhà Trắng, 1979)
• Years of Upheaval (1982)
• Years of Renewal (1999)