Homo necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen. Berlim: De Gruyter. 1972. ISBN3-11-003875-7
Homo necans: Antropologia del Sacrificio Cruento nella Grecia Antica. trad. Francesco Bertolini. Turin: Boringhieri. 1981. ISBN88-339-5114-6
Homo necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. trad. Peter Bing. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1983. ISBN0-520-03650-6
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1979. ISBN0-520-03771-5
Greek Religion. trad. John Raffan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1985. ISBN0-674-36280-2
Ancient Mystery Cults. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1987. ISBN0-674-03386-8
The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. trans. Margaret E. Pinder. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1992. ISBN0-674-64363-1
Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. trans. Peter Bing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. ISBN0-226-08085-4
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2004. ISBN0-674-01489-8
Alguns artigos de Walter Burkert
Das hunderttorige Theben und die Datierung des Ilias in Wiener Studien, vol. 89 (1976), pp. 5-21.
Kynaithos, Polycrates and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo em Arktouros: Hellenic studies presented to B. M. W. Knox, ed. G. W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M. C. J. Putnam. Berlim: De Gruyter, 1979, pp. 53-62.
Lydia between East and West or how to date the Trojan War: a study in Herodotus' in The ages of Homer: a tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule ed. Jane B. Carter, Sarah P. Morris. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, pp. 139-148.