Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell, 1966)
The Normans in the South (1967)
Sahara (1968)
The Kingdom in the Sun (1970)
A History of Venice: The Rise to Empire (1977)
A History of Venice: The Greatness and the Fall (1981)
Fifty Years of Glyndebourne (1985)
A Taste for Travel (1985)
The Architecture of Southern England (1985)
A History of Byzantium: The Early Centuries (1988)
Venice: A Traveller’s Companion (1990)
A History of Byzantium: The Apogee (1991)
A History of Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (1995)
A Short History of Byzantium (1997)
The Twelve Days of Christmas (1998)
Shakespeare’s Kings (1999)
Paradise of Cities: Venice in the Nineteenth Century (2003)
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (2006)
Trying to Please (2008)
The Popes: A History (2011)
A History of England in 100 Places (2011)
Sicily: A Short History (2015)
Four Princes (2016)
Edited by John Julius Norwich
Great Architecture of the World (1975)
The Italian World (1983)
Britain’s Heritage (1983)
The New Shell Guides to Great Britain (1987–90)
The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Art (1990)
The Treasures of Britain (2002)
The Duff Cooper Diaries (2005)
The Great Cities in History (2009)
Darling Monster (2013)
Cities that Shaped the Ancient World (2014)
An English Christmas (2017)