Books
- Into India
- John Murray 1973, 1999; Scribner (US) 1973; U of Michigan (US), 1999, Rupa (India) several editions, India Today 1999
- When Men and Mountains Meet
- John Murray, 1977, 1996; Century 1982; Shoestring Press (US), 1977, OUP (Pakistan), several editions, HarperCollins (India) 2000, Neri Pozza (Italy) 2005
NOW AVAILABLE as The Explorers of the Western Himalayas,1829-95, John Murray paperback, £15.99 - The Gilgit Game
- John Murray 1979, 1996, OUP (Pakistan) several editions
NOW AVAILABLE as The Explorers etc as above - Eccentric Travellers
- John Murray/BBC 1982, Ariel 1985, John Murray 2001; Tarcher (US) 1982, Payot (France), Tiamat (Germany)
NOW AVAILABLE as John Murray paperback, £9.99 - Explorers Extraordinary
- John Murray/BBC 1985, John Murray 2001, Tarcher (US) 1985, Payot (France), Tiamat (Germany)
NOW AVAILABLE as John Murray paperback, £9.99 - Highland Drove
- John Murray 1984
- India Discovered
- Windward 1981, HarperCollins 1988, 1989, 2001, Mayflower (US) 1981
NOW AVAILABLE in HarperCollins paperback, £8.99 - The Royal Geographical Society’s History of World Exploration (General editor)
- Hamlyn, 1991
- Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland (co-editor with Julia Keay)
- HarperCollins 1994, 2nd Edition, HarperCollins 2001.
NOW AVAILABLE in HarperCollins hardback, £50.00 - The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company
- HarperCollins 1991, 1993, Macmillan (US) 1991
NOW AVAILABLE in HarperCollins paperback £9.99 - The Robinson Book of Exploration (editor)
- Robinson, 1991; various other titles, most recently The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places, Constable Robinson 2002, and The Mammoth Book of Explorers, Carroll and Graf (US) 2002.
NOW AVAILABLE in Constable Robinson paperback £7.99 - Indonesia; From Sabang to Merauke
- Boxtree, 1995, 1996
AVAILABILITY unknown - Last Post: The End of Empire in the Far East
- John Murray 1997, 2000; (as Empire’s End) Scribner (US) 1997
NOW AVAILABLE as John Murray paperback £10.99 - India: A History
- HarperCollins 2000, 2001, Folio Society (2 vols) 2003, Grove/Atlantic (US) 2000, 2001
NOW AVAILABLE as HarperCollins paperback, £9.99 and Folio Society boxed set, price on request - The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named
- HarperCollins, 2000, 2001, HarperCollins (US), 2000, 2001, Campus (Germany) 2002
NOW AVAILABLE as HarperCollins paperback, £6.99 
Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East/The Managing of the Middle East 1900-1960- John Murray 2003, 2004: Norton (US) 2003
NOW AVAIILABLE as John Murray paperback, £9.99 - The Spice Route
- John Murray 2005, 2006, Folio Society 2005, Univ of California Press 2006, Neri Pozza (Italy) 2005.
NOW AVAILABLE as John Murray paperback £8.99 - Mad about the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in south East Asia
- HarperCollins 2005, 2006.
NOW AVAILABLE as Harper Perennial paperback £8.99 - China: A History
- HarperCollins July 2008
- The London Encyclopaedia, 3rd edition, (co-editor with Julia Keay)
- Macmillan, August 2008
Other texts by John Keay, not listed here, on Banaras, Ladakh, Tibet etc have appeared in books published exclusively in Germany or India.
Introductions and individual chapters by John Keay will be found in many works, most recently Everest: Summit of Achievement, RGS/Bloomsbury 2003, The Seventy Great Journeys in History, Thames and Hudson 2006, The Seventy Great Historical Cities, Thames and Hudson, 2008/9