All Titles by R W Johnson
- (ed. with Christopher Allen) African Perspectives (1970)How Long Will South Africa Survive? (1977)
- The Long March of the French Left (1981)
- Shootdown: The Verdict on KAL 007 (1985)
- Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays (1990)
- (ed. with Lawrence Schlemmer) Launching Democracy in South Africa: South Africa’s First Open Election, April 1994 (1996)
- (ed. with David Welsh) Ironic Victory: Liberalism in Post-Liberation South Africa (1998)
- South Africa; The First Man, the Last Nation (2004)
- South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid (2009)
- How Long Will South Africa Survive?: The Looming Crisis (2015)
- Look Back in Laughter: Oxford’s Postwar Golden Age (2015)