∗Time for a Tiger (novel) 1956
∗The Enemy in the Blanket (novel) 1958
English Literature: A Survey for Students [as John Burgess Wilson] (criticism) 1958
∗Beds in the East (novel) 1959
The Doctor Is Sick (novel) 1960
The Right to an Answer (novel) 1960
Devil of a State (novel) 1961
One Hand Clapping [as Joseph Kell] (novel) 1961
The Worm and the Ring (novel) 1961
A Clockwork Orange (novel) 1962
The Wanting Seed (novel) 1962
Honey for the Bears (novel) 1963
†Inside Mr. Enderby [as Joseph Kell] (novel) 1963
The Novel Today (criticism) 1963
The Eve of St. Venus (novel) 1964
Language Made Plain [as John Burgess Wilson] (nonfiction) 1964
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (novel) 1964
Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (criticism) 1965; also published as Re Joyce, 1965
A Vision of Battlements (novel) 1965
Tremor of Intent (novel) 1966
The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction (criticism) 1967; revised edition, 1971
†Enderby Outside (novel) 1968
Urgent Copy: Literary Studies (criticism) 1968
Shakespeare (biography) 1970
MF (novel) 1971
Morning in His Eyes [translator and adaptor; from the drama Oedipus Rex by Sophocles] (drama) 1972
Cyrano [translator and adaptor; from the drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand] (drama) 1973
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (criticism) 1973
‡The Clockwork Testament; or, Enderby's End (novel) 1974
Napoleon Symphony (novel) 1974
Beard's Roman Women (novel) 1976
A Long Trip to Teatime (juvenilia) 1976
Moses: A Narrative (poetry) 1976
Abba Abba (novel) 1977
A Christmas Recipe (poetry) 1977
Ernest Hemingway and His World (biography) 1978
1985 (novel) 1978
The Land Where Ice Cream Grows (juvenilia) 1979
Man of Nazareth (novel) 1979
Earthly Powers (novel) 1980
§Quest for Fire [with Gerard Brach and Jean-Jacques Annaud] (screenplay) 1981
The End of the World News (novel) 1983
Enderby's Dark Lady; or, No End to Enderby (novel) 1984
Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (biography) 1985
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978–1985 (journalism) 1985; also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?, 1986
The Kingdom of the Wicked (novel) 1985
Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Burgess (autobiography) 1986
The Pianoplayers (novel) 1986
A Clockwork Orange (drama) 1987
Any Old Iron (novel) 1989
The Devil's Mode (short stories) 1989
You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Burgess (autobiography) 1990
Mozart and the Wolf Gang (novel) 1991; also published as On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang. Being a Celestial Colloquy, An Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, a Stendahlian Transcription, and a Heartfelt Homage upon the Bicentenary of the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1991
A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (nonfiction) 1992
Chatsky; or, The Importance of Being Stupid [translator; from the drama Gore ot Uma by Alexander Griboyedov] (drama) 1993
A Dead Man in Deptford (novel) 1993

∗These works were published as The Malayan Trilogy in 1964 and as The Long Day Wanes: The Malayan Trilogy in 1965.

†These works were published as Enderby in 1968.

‡This work was published along with Inside Mr. Enderby and Enderby Outside as Enderby in 1982.

§Burgess devised the primitive language used by the characters in this film about prehistoric man.