The Acrobats (novel) 1954

Son of a Smaller Hero (novel) 1955

A Choice of Enemies (novel) 1957

Insomnia Is Good for You [with Lewis Greifer] (screenplay) 1957

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel) 1959

The Incomparable Atuk (novel) 1963; also published as Stick Your Neck Out, 1963

Cocksure (novel) 1968

Hunting Tiger under Glass: Essays and Reports (essays) 1969

The Street: Stories (short stories) 1969

Canadian Writing Today [editor] (short stories) 1970

St. Urbain's Horseman (novel) 1971

Shovelling Trouble (essays) 1972

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [with Lionel Chetwynd] (screenplay) 1974

Notes on Endangered Species and Others (essays) 1974

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang [illustrations by Fritz Wegner] (juvenilia) 1975

Fun with Dick and Jane [with David Giler and Jerry Belson] (screenplay) 1977

The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays (essays) 1978

Joshua Then and Now (novel) 1980

Duddy (play) 1984

Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album (essays) 1984

Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur [illustrations by Norman Eyolfson] (juvenilia) 1987

Solomon Gursky Was Here (novel) 1989

Broadsides: Reviews and Opinions (essays and criticism) 1990

Writers on World War II: An Anthology [editor] (essays, letters, and diaries) 1991

Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country (essays and criticism) 1992

This Year in Jerusalem (essays and memoirs) 1994

Barney's Version (novel) 1997

Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case [illustrations by Norman Eyolfson] (juvenilia) 1997

Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports, and Opinions (essays and criticism) 1998

Dispatches from the Sporting Life (essays) 2001

On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It (essays) 2001