Political systems of highland Burma: a study of Kachin social structure (Harvard University Press, 1954)
Rethinking anthropology (Robert Cunningham and Sons Ltd., 1961)
Pul Eliya: a village in Ceylon (Cambridge University Press, 1961)
A runaway world? (London: BBC, 1968)
Genesis as myth and other essays (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
Lévi-Strauss (Fontana Books, 1970)
Claude Lévi-Strauss (Viking Press, 1970)
Culture and communication: the logic by which symbols are connected (Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Social anthropology (Oxford University Press, 1982)
The essential Edmund Leach (Yale University Press, 2001, 2 vols.)
