"The Romantic generation of modern Chinese writers." Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1973. ISBN: 0674779304
"Voices from the iron house: A study of Lu Xun ". Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN:0253362636
"Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945".1999, Harvard University Press, ISBN:978-0674805518
" City between worlds: my Hong Kong". Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. 2008 ISBN: 978-0-674-02701-5
"An Intellectual history of modern China", Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ed,Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2002. ISBN: 0521801206
"Land without ghosts : Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present". translated and edited by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee. Berkeley : University of California Press,1989. ISBN: 0520052566
"The lyrical and the epic : studies of modern Chinese literature." Author: Jaroslav Prusek ; edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1980. ISBN: 0253102839
"The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project." Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova, Oldrich Kral, and Graham Sanders Ed, Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. ISBN: 978-0674007864
"Musings: Reading Hong Kong, China and the World." Leo Lee Ou-fan, Muse Books/East Slope Publishing : Hong Kong, 2011. ISBN: 978-988-15005-0-2