Shadow Dance (novel) 1966; also published as Honeybuzzard, 1966

Unicorn (poetry) 1966

The Magic Toyshop (novel) 1967

Several Perceptions (novel) 1968

Heroes and Villains (novel) 1969

The Donkey Prince (juvenilia) 1970

Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (juvenilia) 1970

Love (novel) 1971; revised edition, 1987

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (novel) 1972; also published as The War of Dreams, 1974

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (short stories) 1974; revised as Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises, 1981

The Passion of New Eve (novel) 1977

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (short stories) 1979

The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (nonfiction) 1979; also published as The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, 1979

Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings (essays) 1982; revised edition, 1992

Nights at the Circus (novel) 1984

Black Venus (short stories) 1985; also published as Saints and Strangers, 1986

Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays (broadcasts) 1985

The Virago Book of Fairy Tales [editor] (fairy tales) 1990; also published as The Old Wives' Tale Book, 1990

Wise Children (novel) 1991

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (essays) 1992

The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales [editor] (fairy tales) 1992; also published as Sometimes Strange Things Still Happen, 1993

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (short stories) 1993

Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (short stories) 1995

The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera (plays) 1996

Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings (nonfiction) 1997