Grijpstra and de Gier novels

• Outsider in Amsterdam, 1975
• Tumbleweed, 1976
• The Corpse on the Dike, 1976
• Death of a Hawker, 1977
• The Japanese Corpse, 1977
• The Blond Baboon, 1978
• The Maine Massacre, 1979
• The Mind-Murders, 1981
• The Streetbird, 1983
• The Rattle-Rat, 1985
• Hard Rain, 1986
• Just A Corpse at Twilight, 1994
• The Hollow-Eyed Angel, 1996
• The Perfidious Parrot, 1997
• The Amsterdam Cops: Collected Stories, 1999 (anthology)
• replaces the anthology The Sergeant's Cat and Other Stories

Children's books

• Little Owl, 1978
• Hugh Pine, 1980
• Hugh Pine and the Good Place, 1981
• Hugh Pine and Something Else, 1983

Other fiction

• The Butterfly Hunter, 1982
• Bliss and Bluster, 1982
• Inspector Saito's Small Satori, 1985 (anthology)
• Murder by Remote Control, 1986 (graphic novel, with Paul Kirchner)
• Seesaw Millions, 1988
• Mangrove Mama and Other Tropical Tales of Terror, 1995 (anthology)
• Judge Dee Plays His Lute: A Play and Selected Mystery Stories, 1997 (anthology; includes the original play Judge Dee Plays his Lute and a selection from other anthologies)

Non-fiction

• The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, 1971
• A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, 1975
• Robert Van Gulik: His Life, His Work, 1988
• Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student out on His Ear, 1999

Articles/stories not included in books

• Astral Bodies and Tantric Sex. The New York Times, January 10, 1988. (review of a two-volume biography of Alexandra David-Néel)
• The Way Life Should Be - Maine: coastline on a clean, cold sea. The Nation, September 1, 2003.

Translations

• Alexandra David-Néel and Lama Yongden: The Power of Nothingness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982 (French to English, with an introduction by the translator)
• Van de Wetering translated many books from English to Dutch and two books from French to Dutch.

Unpublished in English

• De doosjesvuller en andere vondsten (The boxfiller and other findings), 1984 (essays in Dutch)
• Waar zijn we aan begonnen? (What have we started?), 1985 (essays in Dutch on the stages of life with the psychologist Hans van Rappard)
• Eugen Eule und der Fall des verschwundenen Flohs, 2001 (children's book in German)
• Die entartete Seezunge, 2004 (inspired by the World War 2 bombing of Rotterdam and the 9/11 disaster in NYC) (a novel in German, appeared as an article in Dutch)

• Grijpstra and de Gier (Netherlands, 1979), based on the novel Outsider in Amsterdam, script by Wim Verstappen
• Rattlerat (Netherlands, 1987), script by Wim Verstappen
• Der blonde Affe (Germany, 1985), based on the novel The Blond Baboon

• A TV series based on the Grijpstra and de Gier characters started airing on Dutch TV in 2004, 30 episodes are made, another 15 are ordered. Roef Hagas and Jack Wouterse play youthful versions of de Gier and Grijpstra.
• CBS aired a TV special featuring the original Hugh Pine novel (Storybreak #12).

• Van de Wetering wrote 4 radio plays for German TV, again based on the Grijpstra and de Gier series. The plays were aired during the early nineties. Among these is Das Koan (1994), based on Van de Wetering's biography of Robert van Gulik, creator of the Judge Dee series. The English version, Judge Dee Plays His Lute, was included in the anthology with the same name.