The Good Society: A Book of Readings (edited with Anthony Arblaster). London: Methuen,1971 London, and New York: Harper & Row
Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press and New York: Harper and Row; Peregrine edition, 1975; republished with new preface Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985 (Translated into Spanish)
Individualism Oxford: Blackwell, 1973 and New York: Harper and Row (Trans. into Spanish and Japanese). To be republished with new introduction 2006.
Power: a Radical View London: Macmillan, 1974 and New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1975 (Trans. into Spanish, Japanese, Polish and in part into French)
Essays in Social Theory London: Macmillan, 1977 and New York: Columbia University Press
Rationality and Relativism (edited with Martin Hollis) Oxford: Blackwell, 1982 Concluding chapter: ‘Relativism in its Place’
Emile Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method, edited with an Introduction by Steven Lukes, translated by W.D. Halls London: Macmillan, 1982 and New York: Free Press
Durkheim and the Law (edited with Andrew Scull) Oxford: Martin Roberson,1983
Marxism and Morality Oxford: Clarendon,1985
with Itzhak Galnoor: No Laughing Matter: A Collection of Political Jokes London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985 and Penguin Paperbacks
Introduction to Vaclav Havel et al. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central-Eastern Europe Lonson: Hutchinson, 1985
The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History (co-edited with M. Carrithers and S. Collins), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, Concluding chapter. Japanese translation 1995, Italian translation, Corrado Lampe, Lanuvio, 1998
Power Oxford: Blackwell 1986 and New York: New York University Press. Edited volume of selected articles with introduction)
Moral Conflict and Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
in Italian: Isaiah Berlin: Tra la filosofia e la storia delle idee. Una conversazione con Steven Lukes, Florence: Ponte alle Grazie, 1994
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat, London and New York: Verso, 1995 translated into German (Rotbuch Verlag), French (Salvy/Ballard), Brazilian Portuguese (Revan), Greek (Stachi), Korean (Review and Review), Japanese (Japan Broadcast Publishing), Portuguese (Gradiva), Thai (Kofbai), Dutch (De Geus), Danish (Forum/Spectrum), Norwegian (J. M. Stenersens Vorlag), Turkish (Bilim ve Sanat , Yayin Dagatim), Italy (Mondadori), Chinese (China Times), Polish (Musa) and Slovenian.
Ciudadania : justicia social, identitad y participacion (co-edited with an introduction with Soledad Garcia), Madrid: Siglo Ventiuno, Madrid, 1999
Multicultural Citizenship (co-edited with an introduction with Christian Joppke), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity, London: Verso, 2003
Power: A Radical View Second Edition. The Original Text with two major new chapters. London: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2005 Translated into Italian (Vita e Pensiero 2007)
Moral Relativism. New York, Picador, 2008 and London, Profile Books, 2009