Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Stanford Univ. Press, 1er juin 1969)
Twenty Plays of the No Theatre (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er juin 1970)
World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 (Henry Holt & Co, 1er octobre 1976) - (second livre dans les séries de son "A History of Japanese Literature")
Some Japanese Portraits (Kodansha Amer. Inc, 1er mars 1979)
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era (Henry Holt & Co, 1er septembre 1987)
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era ; Poetry, Drama, Criticism (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1er avril 1984) - (quatrième livre des séries de son "A History of Japanese Literature")
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era ; Fiction (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1er avril 1984) - (troisième livre dans les séries de son "A History of Japanese Literature")
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er octobre 1988) ; (ISBN0-231-06736-4)
Donald Keene et Herbert E. Plutschow, Introducing Kyoto (Kodansha Amer. Inc, 1er avril 1989)
Travelers of a Hundred Ages : The Japanese As Revealed Through 1, 000 Years of Diaries (Diane Pub Co, 1er juin 1989)
Modern Japanese Novels and the West (Umi Research Press, 1er juillet 1989)
No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er décembre 1990)
Appreciations of Japanese Culture (Kodansha Amer. Inc, 1er avril 1991)
Donald Keene et Ooka Makoto, The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse (Katydid Books, 1er mai 1991
Travelers of a Hundred Ages (Henry Holt & Co, 1er août 1992)
Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Henry Holt & Co, 1er juin 1993) -(premier livre des séries de son "A History of Japanese Literature")
On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer. Inc, 1er janvier 1994)
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries (Henry Holt & Co, 1er mars 1995)
The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology (Columbia Univ Press, 1er juin 1996
On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures (Kodansha Amer. Inc, 1er avril 1996)
Donald Keene et Anne Nishimura & Frederic A. Sharf, Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meija Era, 1868-1912 (musée des beaux-arts de Boston, 1er mai 2001)
Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 compilé par Donalde Keen, Wm. Theodore De Bary, George Tanabe et Paul Varley (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er mai, 2001)
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er avril 2002)
Donald Keene et Lee Bruschke-Johnson & Ann Yonemura, Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection (Univ. of Washington Press, 1er septembre 2002)
Five Modern Japanese Novelists (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er décembre 2002)
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan (Columbia Univ. Press, 1er novembre 2003)
Frog In The Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841 (Asia Perspectives), (Columbia Univ. Press, 2006).
Prix et distinctions
Prix Yomiuri de littérature (Yomiuri bunbakusho) (1985)