The Grass Is Singing (novel) 1950
∗Martha Quest (novel) 1952
This Was the Old Chief's Country (short stories) 1952
Before the Deluge (drama) 1953
Five: Short Novels (novellas) 1953
∗A Proper Marriage (novel) 1954
No Witchcraft for Sale (short stories) 1956
Retreat to Innocence (novel) 1956
Going Home (essays) 1957
The Habit of Loving (short stories) 1957
Each His Own Wilderness (drama) 1958
Mr. Dollinger (drama) 1958
∗A Ripple from the Storm (novel) 1958
Fourteen Poems (poetry) 1959
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary (novel) 1960
The Truth about Billy Newton (drama) 1960
The Golden Notebook (novel) 1962
Play with a Tiger (drama) 1962
A Man and Two Women (short stories) 1963
African Stories (short stories) 1964
∗Landlocked (novel) 1966
The Storm [adaptor; from a drama by Alexander Ostrovsky] (drama) 1966
Winter in July (short stories) 1966
Particularly Cats (autobiographical essay) 1967; revised edition entitled Particularly Cats … and Rufus, 1991
Nine African Stories (short stories) 1968
∗The Four-Gated City (novel) 1969
Briefing for a Descent into Hell (novel) 1971
The Story of a Non-Marrying Man, and Other Stories (short stories) 1972; also published as The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories, 1972
The Singing Door (drama) [first publication] 1973
The Summer before the Dark (novel) 1973
The Memoirs of a Survivor (novel) 1974
A Small Personal Voice: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (essays, reviews, and interviews) 1974
Collected Stories. 2 vols. (short stories) 1978; also published as Stories, 1978
†Shikasta (novel) 1979
†The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five (novel) 1980
†The Sirian Experiments (novel) 1981
†The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (novel) 1982
The Diary of a Good Neighbour [as Jane Somers] (novel) 1983
†Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (novel) 1983
‡The Diaries of Jane Somers (novel) 1984
If the Old Could … [as Jane Somers] (novel) 1984
The Good Terrorist (novel) 1985
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (essays) 1987
The Wind Blows Away Our Words (nonfiction) 1987
The Fifth Child (novella) 1988
African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe (nonfiction) 1992
The Real Thing (short stories) 1992
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 (autobiography) 1994
Playing the Game (graphic novel) 1995
Love, Again (novel) 1996
The Pit (short stories) 1996