The New Left Church (essays) 1966

Shakespeare and Society: Critical Studies in Shakespearean Drama (criticism) 1967

The Body as Language: Outline of a “New Left” Theology (nonfiction) 1970

Exiles and Emigrés: Studies in Modern Literature (criticism) 1970

Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës (criticism) 1975

Criticism and Ideology: A Study of Marxist Literary Theory (criticism) 1976

Marxism and Literary Criticism (criticism) 1976

Walter Benjamin; or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (criticism) 1981

The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson (criticism) 1982

Literary Theory: An Introduction (criticism) 1983

The Function of Criticism: From the Spectator to Post-Structuralism (criticism) 1984

Against the Grain: Selected Essays, 1975-1985 (essays) 1986

William Shakespeare (criticism) 1986

Saints and Scholars (novel) 1987

The Ideology of the Aesthetic (criticism) 1990

Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature [with Frederic Jameson and Edward W. Said] (criticism) 1990

Saint Oscar (drama) 1990

Ideology: An Introduction (criticism) 1991

Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, the Derek Jarman Film (screenplay) 1993

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (criticism) 1995

The Illusions of Postmodernism (criticism) 1996

Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader [editor] (criticism) 1996

Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture (essays) 1999