El absurdo entre cuatro paredes: El teatro de Harold Pinter (criticism) 1968

Imaginación y violencia en América (essays and criticism) 1970

Para leer al Pato Donald [with Armand Mattelart; How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic] (nonfiction) 1972

Moros en la costa [Hard Rain] (novel) 1973

Ensayos quemados en Chile: Inocencia y neocolonialismo (essays and criticism) 1974

Superman y sus amigos del alma [with Manuel Jofré] (essays and criticism) 1974

Culture et résistance au Chile (essays and criticism) 1978

Cría ojos [My House Is on Fire] (short stories) 1979

Pruebas al canto (poetry) 1980

Reader's nuestro que estás en la tierra: Ensayos sobre el imperialismo cultural [The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds] (essays and criticism) 1980

Viudas [Widows] (novel) 1981

Missing (poetry) 1982

La última canción de Manuel Sendero [The Last Song of Manuel Sendero] (novel) 1982

Hacia liberación del lector latinamericano (essays and criticism) 1984

Dorando la píldora (short stories) 1985

Patos, elefantes y héroes: La infancia como subdesarrollo (essays and criticism) 1985

Pastel de choclo [Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance] (poetry) 1986

Máscaras [Mascara] (novel) 1988

*Widows (play) 1988

Scars on the Moon (play) 1990

Death and the Maiden (play) 1991

Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction (criticism) 1991

Death and the Maiden [with Rafael Yglesias] (screenplay) 1994

Konfidenz (novel) 1994

Reader (play) 1995

Rumbo al sur, deseando el norte: Un romance en dos lenguas [Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey] (memoir) 1998

Nana y el iceberg [The Nanny and the Iceberg] (novel) 1999

Speak Truth to Power: Voices from beyond the Dark [adaptor; from the nonfiction work by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo] (play) 2000

Blake's Therapy (novel) 2001

Más allá del miedo: El largo adiós a Pinochet [Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet] (nonfiction) 2002

In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (poetry) 2002

Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North (travel writing) 2003

Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004 (essays and criticism) 2004

*Widows originally debuted at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1988. Dorfman co-authored a revised version in 1991 with playwright Tony Kushner.