The Image and the Law (poetry) 1947

The Melodramatists (novel) 1949

Guide to the Ruins (poetry) 1950

Federigo, or the Power of Love (novel) 1954

The Salt Garden (poetry) 1955

The Homecoming Game (novel) 1957

Mirrors and Windows (poetry) 1958

A Commodity of Dreams and Other Stories (short stories) 1959

New and Selected Poems (poetry) 1960

Endor: Drama in One Act (verse drama) 1961

The Next Room of the Dream: Poems and Two Plays (poetry and drama) 1962

Poetry and Fiction: Essays (literary criticism) 1963

Journal of the Fictive Life (autobiography) 1965

Poets on Poetry [editor and contributor] (literary criticism) 1965

The Blue Swallows (poetry) 1967

A Sequence of Seven with a Drawing by Ron Slaughter (poetry) 1967

The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (poetry) 1968

Stories, Fables, and Other Diversions (short stories) 1971

Reflexions on Poetry and Poetics (literary criticism) 1972

Gnomes and Occasions (poetry) 1973

The Western Approaches: Poems, 1973-75 (poetry) 1975

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (poetry) 1977

Figures of Thought: Speculations on the Meaning of Poetry and Other Essays (literary criticism) 1978

Sentences (poetry) 1980

Inside the Onion (poetry) 1984

New and Selected Essays (essays) 1985

The Oak in the Acorn: On “Remembrance of Things Past” and on Teaching Proust, Who Will Never Learn (memoir) 1987

War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now (poetry) 1987

A Howard Nemerov Reader (miscellany) 1991

Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (poetry) 1991