House of Earth
1. The Good Earth (1931)
2. Sons (1932)
3. A House Divided (1935)

East Wind: West Wind (1930)
The Mother (1934)
This Proud Heart (1938)
The Big Wave (1938)
The Patriot (1939)
Other Gods: An American Legend (1940)
Portrait of a Marriage (1941)
Dragon Seed (1942)
The Promise (1943)
Voices in the House (1944) (writing as John Sedges)
The Townsman (1944) (writing as John Sedges)
The Long Love (1944) (writing as John Sedges)
The Townspeople (1945) (writing as John Sedges)
Pavilion of Women (1946)
The Angry Wife (1947) (writing as John Sedges)
Peony (1948)
The Bondmaid (1949)
Kinfolk (1950)
God's Men (1951)
Bright Procession (1952) (writing as John Sedges)
Hidden Flower (1952)
Come, My Beloved (1953)
Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (1955)
China Sky (1956)
Imperial Woman (1956)
Letter from Peking (1957)
The Christmas Mouse (1958)
Command the Morning (1959)
Christmas Ghost (1960)
The Devil Never Sleeps (1962)
Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen (1963)
The Living Reed (1963)
Death in the Castle (1966)
Time is Noon (1967)
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1967)
The New Year (1968)
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
Mandala (1971)
Chinese Story Teller (1971)
Goddess Abides (1972)
All Under Heaven (1973)
Far and Near (1973)
The Rainbow (1974)

The Exile (1936)
Fighting Angel: Portrait of a soul (1937)
The Chinese Novel (1939)
Of Men and Women (1941)
American Argument (1950)
The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
My Several Worlds (1954)
Tell the People: Talks with James Yen About the Mass Educational Movement (1959)
A Bridge for Passing (1963)
For Spacious Skies (1966) (with Theodore F Harris)
The People of Japan (1968)
The Kennedy Women (1970)
China as I See it (1971)
Pearl Buck's America (1971)
The Story Bible (1971)
American Unity and Asia (1972)
What America Means to Me (1973)
Joy of Children (1974)
Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1974)
Oriental Cook Book (1974)