• That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (1983) with J. W. Burrow and Donald Winch
• Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850–1930 (1991)
• The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow, introduction by Stefan Collini (1993)
• Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (1994)
• English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture (1999)
• "'No Bullshit' Bullshit." London Review of Books. 23 January 2003. (accessed 29 October 2009).
• Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006)
• Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics (2009)
• "Modernism and the little magazines." The Times Literary Supplement. 7 October 2009. (accessed 8 October 2009).
• That's Offensive!: Criticism, Identity, Respect, Seagull Books (15 February 2011).
• What Are Universities For?, Penguin (23 February 2012)
• Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate, Oxford (2016)
• Collini, Stefan (2017). Speaking of Universities. London: Verso.
• The Nostalgic Imagination. History in English Criticism. Oxford University Press (2020)

Critical studies and reviews of Collini's work

• Reitter, Paul (22 February 2018). "The Business of Learning". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 30, 32–33. Review of Speaking of Universities.

• Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge
• Contributor page at the London Review of Books
• Contributor page at The Nation
• Journalisted page
• Review of What Are Universities For?^[usurped] The Oxonian Review, 23 April 2012.
• "The Two Cultures - A Conversation with Stefan Collini", Ideas Roadshow, 2013