Keluarga gerilja: Kisah keuarga manusia dalam tiga hari tiga malam (novel) 1950

Perburuan [The Fugitive] (novel) 1950

Pertjikan revolusi (short stories) 1950

Subuh: Tjerita-tjerita pendek revolusi (short stories) 1950

Mereka yang dilumpuhkan (novel) 1951

Tjerita dari Blora [Stories from Blora] (short stories) 1952

Tjerita dari Djakarta: Sekumpulan karikutur keadaan dan manusianja [Tales from Djakarta] (short stories) 1957

Tjerita Tjalon Arang (short stories) 1957

Hoakiau di Indonesia [The Overseas Chinese of Indonesia] (criticism) 1960; revised edition, 1998

Bukan pasar malam [It's Not an All Night Fair] (novella) 1964

Korupsi [Corruption] (short stories) 1964

A Heap of Ashes (short stories and novella) 1975

*Bumi manusia [This Earth of Mankind] (novel) 1980

*Anak semua bangsa [Child of All Nations] (novel) 1980

Tempo doeloe: Antologi sastra pra-Indonesia [editor] (essays and short stories) 1982

*Jejak langkah [Footsteps] (novel) 1985

†Sang pemula dan karya-karya non-fiksi (jurnalistik), fiksi (cerpen/novel) R. M. Tirto Adhi Soerjo (biography) 1985

Gandis Pantai [The Girl from the Coast] (novel) 1987

‡Awakenings (novels) 1991

*Rumah kaca [House of Glass] (novel) 1992

Arus Balik (novel) 1995

Memoar Oei Tjoe Tat [editor; with Stanley Adi Prasetyo] (memoir) 1995

Nyanyi sunyi seorang bisu. [The Mute's Soliloquy] 2 vols. (memoir) 1995-1997

Arok Dedes (novel) 1999

Larasati: Sebuah Roman Revolusi (novel) 2000

Mangir (novel) 2000

The King, the Witch, and the Priest: A Twelfth Century Javanese Tale (novel) 2001

All That Is Gone: Stories (short stories) 2004

*These four novels comprise the series known either as the Buru Quartet or the Buru Tetralogy.

†Though no English translation exists, Sang pemula has been translated into Dutch under the title De pionier.

‡Includes the English translations of This Earth of Mankind and Child of All Nations.