• Books
• Kleinman, A. 2019. The Soul of Care. N.Y.: Viking/Penguin Press (US paperback ed., 2020; UK paperback ed., 2020). Chinese translation including new introduction published by PsyGarden Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019; Korean translation including new introduction published by Sigongsa Company, Seoul, South Korea, 2019; Japanese translation including new introduction, published by Fukumura, Tokyo, Japan, 2019; Chinese translation including new introduction published by Citic Press, Beijing, P. R. China, 2020; Thai translation published by Kobfai Publishing Project, Thailand, 2023.
• Kleinman A. 2006. What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger. Oxford University Press. Chinese translations published by Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, Shanghai, P.R. China 2007, and by PsyGarden Publishing Company, Taiwan, 2007; Japanese translation published by Seishin Shobo, Tokyo, 2011.
• Kleinman, A. 1995. Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: University of California Press. Italian translation, 2022.rueBallu Edizoni Palermo.
• Kleinman, A. 1988. Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience. N.Y.: Free Press.
• Kleinman, A. 1988. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition. N.Y.: Basic Books/Perseus Books/Hatchette. Japanese translation published by Seishin Shobo, Tokyo; Chinese translations published by Laureate Book Company, Taipei, and by Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, Shanghai, P.R. China 2010 (new paperback edition including a new preface, September 2020).
• Kleinman, A. 1986. Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression and Neurasthenia in Modern China. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chinese translation published by Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, Shanghai, P.R. China, 2008.
• Kleinman, A. 1980. Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry. Berkeley: University of California Press. Awarded the Welcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, 1980, Royal Anthropological Institute. Japanese translation published by Kobundo, Tokyo.

Multi-authored books

• Wilkinson, Iain and Arthur Kleinman. 2016. A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering. University of California Press.
• Kleinman, Arthur, Shigeyuki Eguchi, and Akira Kaito. 2015. The Meaning of Providing Care: The Psychology and Medical Anthropology Accompanying the Care of the Ill. Tokyo: Seishinshobo. (In Japanese.)
• Kleinman, A., Y. Yan, J. Jing, T. Pan, S. Lee, E. Zhang, F. Wu, and J. Guo. 2011. Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person. What Anthropology and Psychiatry Tell us about China Today. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Desjarlais, R., L. Eisenberg, B. Good, and A. Kleinman. 1995. World Mental Health: Problems, Priorities, and Policies in Low-Income Countries. New York: Oxford University Press. Spanish translation published by Pan American Health Organization; Italian translation published by Il Mulino/Alfa Tape, Bologna.

Edited Books

• Akyeampong, E., A. G. Hill, and A. Kleinman, eds. 2015. Culture, Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa. Indiana University Press.
• Das, V., M.D. Jackson, A. Kleinman, and B. Singh, eds. 2014. The Ground Between:
• Farmer, P., J. Y. Kim, A. Kleinman, and M. Basilico, eds. 2013. Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction. University of California Press. Korean-language edition published by UC press with T&H Press.
• Zhang, E., A. Kleinman, and W. Tu, eds. 2010. Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience. The Quest for an Adequate Life. Routledge. Anthropologists Engage Philosophy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Special Editions of Journals

• Kleinman, A., guest ed. Daedalus. Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Mental Health." Volume 152, Number 4; Fall 2023.
• Good, Byron J., Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sharon Abramowitz, Arthur Kleinman, and Catherine Panter-Brick, guest eds. 2014. "Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice." Social Science & Medicine 120: 311-316.
• Kuah-Pearce, K. E., A. Kleinman, and E. Harrison, guest eds. 2014. “Social Suffering and the Culture of Compassion in a Morally Divided China,” Anthropology and Medicine 20(1).
• Becker, A. and A. Kleinman, guest eds. 2012. Special Anniversary Issue on Global Mental Health, Harvard Review of Psychiatry 20(1).