Veranea y otros cuentos [Summertime and Other Stories] (short stories) 1955

Dos cuentos [Two Stories] (short stories) 1956

Coronación [Coronation] (novel) 1957

El charlestón [Charleston and Other Stories] (short stories) 1960

El lugar sin límites [Hell Has No Limits] (novella) 1966

Este domingo [This Sunday] (novel) 1966

El obsceno pájaro de la noche [The Obscene Bird of Night] (novel) 1970

Cuentos (short stories) 1971

Historia personal del “boom” [The “Boom” in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History] (literary history) 1977

*Tres novelitas burguesas [Sacred Families: Three Novellas] (novellas) 1977

Casa de campo [A House in the Country] (novel) 1978

El jardín de al lado [The Garden Next Door] (novel) 1981

La misteriosa desaparición de la Marquesita de Loria (novel) 1981

Poemas de un novelista (poetry) 1981

Cuatro para Delfina [Four for Delfina] (novellas) 1982

Sueños de mala muerte [Dreams of a Bad Death] (play) 1985

Seis cuentos para ganar (short stories) 1985

La desesperanza [The Curfew] (novel) 1986

Taratuta; Naturaleza muerta con cachimba [Taratuta; and, Still Life with Pipe: Two Novellas] (novellas) 1990

Donde van a morir los elefantes (novel) 1994

*This collection contains the novellas “Chatanooga Choo-choo,” “Green Atom Number Five,” and “Gaspard de la Nuit.”