Books
The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
R. B. Woodward and R. Hoffmann, Verlag Chemie and Academic Press, Weinheim and New York, 1970
The Metamict State
University of Central Florida Press (University Presses of Florida), Orlando, 1987
Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures
R. Hoffmann, VCH, New York, 1988. Translated into Russian by A. L. Tchougreev, Mir, Moscow, 1990
Gaps and Verges
University of Central Florida Press (University Presses of Florida), Orlando, 1990
Chemistry Imagined
Roald Hoffmann and Vivian Torrence, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1993; published in Chinese, Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, Shanghai, PRC
The Same and Not the Same
Columbia University Press, New York, 1995
Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition
Roald Hoffmann and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt, W.H. Freeman, New York, 1997
Memory Effects
Calhoun Press, Chicago, 1999
Oxygen
A play by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann. Published by VCH in 2001, with numerous translations in other languages.
Soliton
Truman State University Press, Kirksville, MO, 2002
Catalista: Poemas Escogidos
Huerga & Fierro Editores, Madrid, 2002
Roald Hoffmann Izbrannie Stichotvorenia
Izdatel’stvo Tekst, Moscow, 2010; Bilingual edition, Russian/English; translations mainly by Alla Mikhalevich and Victor Fet.
Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science
Edited by Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd Whyte, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011. Originally published in German as Das Erhabene in Wissenschaft und Kunst: Űber Vernunft und Einbildungskraft, ed. Roald Hoffmann and Iain Boyd Whyte,Editions Unseld (Suhrkamp), Berlin, 2010.
Should've
a play, published here in a bilingual English and Spanish edition in 2011 by Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. Hebrew, Russian and German editions are also available.
Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry
Edited by J. Kovac and M. Weisberg, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011.
Joy Goswami: Selected Poems
edited by Roald Hoffmann, translated by several, Whale & Star Press, distr. Univ. Nebraska Press, 2013
Something That Belongs to You
Play, published 2015, by Dos Madres Press
Zassou (Weeds)
A poem, “A Kyushu Weed Story,” is the subject of a Japanese language children’s book, “Zassou”(“Weeds”), by Roald Hoffmann and Mika Yoshizawa, published by Imajinsha in Tokyo in 2018.
Constants of the Motion
Dos Madres Press, Loveland OH, 2020
Los Hombres y las Moleculas
Bilingual selection of poems, translated and edited by Luisa Pastor. Published by Auralaria Ediciones, Orihuela, Spain, 2023