• "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." (Various works.)
• "It is plain that the vaster the social unit, the less possible is true democracy." Lanark, p.289
• "Who did the council fight?"

"It split in two and fought itself."

"That's suicide!"

"No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation."

"I refuse to believe men kill each other just to make their enemies rich."

"How can men recognize their real enemies when their family, schools and work teach them to struggle with each other and to believe law and decency come from the teachers?"

"My son won't be taught that," said Lanark firmly.

"You have a son?"

"Not yet." Lanark, p.411

Novels

• Lanark (1981)
• 1982, Janine (1984)
• The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985)
• Something Leather (1990)
• McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990)
• Poor Things (1992)
• A History Maker (1994)
• Mavis Belfrage (1996)
• Old Men In Love (2007)

Short stories

• Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
• Lean Tales (1985) (with James Kelman and Agnes Owens)
• Ten Tales Tall & True (1993)
• Mavis Belfrage (1996)
• The Ends of Our Tethers (2003)

Poetry

• Old Negatives (1989)
• Sixteen Occasional Poems (2000)

As illustrator

• Songs of Scotland (Author, Wilma Patterson) (1996)

• Pocket Canons Bible II: Jonah, Micah and Nahum (Introduction) (1999)

• Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992; revised 1997)
• The Book of Prefaces (ed.) (2000)
• How We Should Rule Ourselves (2005)
• A Life in Pictures (2010)

Theatre

• Dialogue - A Duet (1971)
• The Loss Of The Golden Silence
• Homeward Bound - A Trio for Female Chauvinists (1973)
• Sam Lang and Miss Watson - A One Act Sexual Comedy In Four Scenes (1973)
• McGrotty and Ludmilla (1986)
• Working Legs: A Play for Those Without Them (1997)
• Goodbye Jimmy (2006)
• Fleck (2008)
• A Gray Play Book (2009)

Television

• Dialogue - A Duet (1972)

• Today and Yesterday

• Martin (1972)

Radio

• Dialogue - A Duet (1969)

• The Loss Of The Golden Silence

Academic

• The Arts of Alasdair Gray, Robert Crawford and Thom Nairn (1991)

• Alasdair Gray, Stephen Bernstein (1999)

• Alasdair Gray: A Unique Scottish Magus, Joy Hendry (ed.) (2000)

• Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography, Phil Moores (ed.) (2001; includes contributions by Gray himself.)

Biographical

• A Secretary's Biography, Rodge Glass (2008)

• Bernard Sellin (coord.), Voices from Modern Scotland: Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, CRINI (Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité), Nantes, 2007, 143 p., ISBN 2-916424-10-5.