Tharisunilam [Fallow Fields] (short stories) 1962

Summer in Calcutta (poetry) 1965

The Descendants (poetry) 1967

The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (poetry) 1973

My Story (autobiography) 1976

The Alphabet of Lust (novel) 1977

A Doll for the Child Prostitute (short stories) 1977

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

The Heart of Britain (nonfiction) 1983

Collected Poems (poetry) 1984

Kamala Das: A Collage (plays) 1984

The Anamalai Poems (poetry) 1985

Palayanam (short stories) 1990

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

The Sandal Trees and Other Stories (short stories) 1995

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

The Path of the Columnist (essays) [as Kamala Suraiyya] 2000