Sartre: The Origins of a Style (criticism) 1961

Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (criticism) 1972

The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (criticism) 1972

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, The Modernist as Fascist (criticism) 1979

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (criticism) 1981

The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986. 2 vols. (criticism) 1988

Postmodernism and Cultural Theories (criticism) 1989

Late Marxism: Adorno, or, The Persistence of the Dialectic (criticism) 1990

Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature [editor; with Terry Eagleton and Edward W. Said] (criticism) 1990

Signatures of the Visible (criticism) 1990

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (criticism) 1991

The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (criticism) 1992

The Seeds of Time (criticism) 1994

Brecht and Method (criticism) 1998

The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 (criticism) 1998

The Cultures of Globalization [editor; with Masao Miyoshi] (criticism) 1998

The Jameson Reader [edited by Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks] (criticism) 2000