• (1935) My Country and My People, Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., (A John Day Book)
• (1936) A History of the Press and Public Opinion in China, Kelly and Walsh
• (1937) The Importance of Living, Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc., (A John Day Book)
• (1938) The Wisdom of Confucius, Random House, The Modern Library
• (1939) Moment in Peking (Kinh hoa yên vân), A John Day Book Company
• (1940) With Love & Irony, A John Day Book Company
• (1940) Leaf in the Storm, A John Day Book Company
• (1942) The Wisdom of China and India, Random House
• (1943) Between Tears & Laughter, A John Day Book Company
• (1944) The Vigil of Nation, A John Day Book Company
• (1947) The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo, A John Day Book Company
• (1948) Chinatown Family, A John Day Book Company
• (1948) The Wisdom of Laotse, Random House
• (1950) On the Wisdom of America, A John Day Book Company
• (1951) Widow, Nun and Courtesan: Three Novelettes From the Chinese Translated and Adapted by Lin Yutang, A John Day Book Company
• (1952) Famous Chinese Short Stories, Retold by Lin Yutang, A John Day Book Company
• (1953) The Vermilion Gate, A John Day Book Company
• (1955) Looking Beyond, Prentice Hall (Xuất bản England as The Unexpected island, Heinemann)
• (1957) Lady Wu, World Publishing Company
• (1958) The Secret Name, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
• (1959) The Chinese Way of Life, World Publishing Company
• (1959) From Pagan to Christianity, World Publishing Company
• (1960) Imperial Peking: Seven Centuries of China, Crown Publishers
• (1960) The Importance of Understanding, World Publishing Company
• (1961) The Red Peony, World Publishing Company
• (1962) The Pleasure of a Nonconformist, World Publishing Company
• (1963) Juniper Loa, World Publishing Company
• (1964) The Flight of Innocents, G. P. Putnam's Sons
• (1973) Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage, Hong Kong Chinese University

Tác phẩm đã dịch ra tiếng Việt

• "Khói lửa kinh thành" (Tức "Kinh Hoa yên vân", The Moment in Peking), Vi Huyền Đắc dịch, Gió Bốn Phương xuất bản.
• Sống đẹp, Nguyễn Hiến Lê dịch, Sài Gòn, 1964; Hà Nội, Nhà xuất bản Văn hóa, tái bản, 1993, 1999
• Tình sử Võ Tắc Thiên, Vũ Hùng dịch, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Nhà xuất bản Trẻ, 1989
• Hội họa Trung Hoa qua lời các vĩ nhân và danh họa, Trịnh Lữ dịch, Nhà xuất bản Mỹ thuật, 2005
• Trung Hoa đất nước con người, Trần Văn Từ dịch, Nhà xuất bản Văn hóa thông tin, 2001