Summer in Calcutta 1965

The Descendants 1967

The Old Playhouse and Other Poems 1975

Tonight, This Savage Rite: The Love Poems of Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy 1979

Collected Poems 1984

The Anamalai Poems 1985

Kamala Das: A Selection, with Essays on Her Work [edited by S. C. Harrex and Vincent O’Sullivan] 1986

Only the Soul Knows How to Sing: Selections from Kamala Das 1996

Tharisunilam [Fallow Fields] (short stories) 1962

Tanuppa (short stories) 1967

Pathy kathakal (short stories) 1968

Thanuppu [Cold] (short stories) 1970

Premathinte vilapa kavyam [Requiem for a Love] (short stories) 1971

Draksakshi Panna [Eyewitness] (juvenilia) 1973

My Story (autobiography) 1976

The Alphabet of Lust (novel) 1977

A Doll for the Child Prostitute (short stories) 1977

The Heart of Britain (nonfiction) 1983

Kamala Das: A Collage (plays) [edited by Arun Kuckreja] 1984

Padamavati, the Harlot and Other Stories (short stories) 1994

The Sandal Trees and Other Stories (short stories) [translated by V. C. Harris and Mohamed Ummer] 1995

The Path of the Columnist (essays) 2000