The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1987, rev. 2001), ISBN0-19-280206-2online
Weimar. Why did German Democracy Fail? (ed.) (London, 1990), ISBN0-312-04470-4
Hitler: A Profile in Power (London, 1991, rev. 2001)
"'Improvised genocide?' The Emergence of the 'Final Solution' in the 'Wargenthau" pp. 51–78 from Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 2, December 1992
"Working Towards the Führer: Reflections on the Nature of the Hitler Dictatorship", pp. 103–118 from Contemporary European History, Volume 2, Issue No. 2, 1993; reprinted on pp. 231–252 from The Third Reich edited by Christian Leitz, London: Blackwell, 1999, ISBN0-631-20700-7
Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison (ed. with Moshe Lewin) (Cambridge, 1997), ISBN0-521-56521-9
Hitler, the Germans and the Final Solution (Yale, 2008), ISBN0-300-12427-9
Hitler (one-volume abridgment of Hitler 1889–1936 and Hitler 1936–1945; London, 2008), ISBN1-84614-069-2
Luck of the Devil The Story of Operation Valkyrie (London: Penguin Books, 2009. Published for the first time as a separate book, Luck of the Devil is taken from Ian Kershaw's bestselling Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis), ISBN0-14-104006-8
The End: Hitler's Germany 1944–45 (Allen Lane, 2011), ISBN0-7139-9716-8
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949 (Allen Lane, 2015), ISBN978-0713990898