Early years

1970s

1980s-1990s

2000s

• The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980) ISBN 0-02-546400-0
• Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983, anthology) ISBN 0-517-55269-8
• Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-88619-124-6
• Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge (1985, anthology) ISBN 0-14-007712-X
• Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (1986, anthology) ISBN 0-88619-065-7
• Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents and Children (1986, anthology) ISBN 0-14-007713-8
• Chronicles of Marriage (1988, anthology) ISBN 0-14-009928-X
• The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-19-540761-X
• Soho Square III (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-7475-0716-3
• Seasons (1990, anthology) ISBN 978-0-385-25265-2
• White Fire - further fantastic literature (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-330-31380-0
• News From a Foreign Country Came (1991, novel) ISBN 0-517-58343-7
• Canadian Mystery Stories (1991, anthology) ISBN 0-19-540820-9
• The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1993, anthology) ISBN 0-921912-47-1
• The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1994, anthology) ISBN 0-921912-77-3
• Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima (1994, anthology) ISBN 0-394-28012-1
• A History of Reading (1996, non-fiction) ISBN 0-394-28032-6
• Lost Words (1996, anthology), ISBN 978-0-904286-56-4
• Bride of Frankenstein (1997, film criticism) ISBN 0-85170-608-8
• Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998, essays) ISBN 0-676-97135-0
• By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature (1998, anthology) ISBN 0-306-45991-4
• Mothers & Daughters (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55192-127-8
• Fathers & Sons (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55192-129-4
• The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55199-030-X
• A Visit to the Dream Bookseller / Ein Besuch beim Traumbuchhändler (1998, non-fiction)
• God's Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression (1999, anthology) ISBN 1-55199-040-7
• Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate (2000, art criticism) ISBN 0-676-97132-6
• Kipling: A Brief Biography for Young Adults (2000), ISBN 1-896209-48-3
• Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire (How Pinocchio Learned to Read, 2000, non-fiction) ISBN 2-88888-102-0
• Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2003, novel) ISBN 0-88762-138-4
• A Reading Diary (2004, non-fiction) ISBN 0-676-97590-9
• With Borges (2004, biography), ISBN 0-88762-146-5
• El regreso (A Return, 2005, novel) ISBN 950-04-2653-6
• The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories (2005, anthology) ISBN 0-670-06449-1
• Un amant très vétilleux (The Overdiscriminating Lover, 2005, novel) ISBN 978-2-7427-5438-0
• The Library at Night (2006, non-fiction) ISBN 0-676-97588-7
• Nuevo elogio de la locura (At the Mad Hatter’s Table, 2006, non-fiction) ISBN 978-950-04-2762-3
• Magic Land of Toys (2006, non-fiction) ISBN 978-0-86565-176-0
• The Penguin Book of Summer Stories (2007, anthology) ISBN 978-0-14-305629-4
• The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture) (2007, non-fiction) ISBN 0-88784-763-3
• Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography (2007, history and criticism) ISBN 978-0-8021-4382-2
• Todos los hombres son mentirosos (All Men Are Liars, 2008, novel) ISBN 978-84-9867-340-1

• Medalla al Mérito (Buenos Aires, 2007)
• Milovan Vidakovic Literary Award (Novi Sad, Serbia, 2007)
• Premio Grinzane Cavour, essay for Diario di un lettore (Italy, 2007)
• Prix Roger Caillois (France, 2004)
• Fellow of the S. Fischer Stiftung (Germany, 2004—2005)
• Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2004)
• Fellow of the Simon Guggenheim Foundation (USA, 2004)
• Prix Poitou-Charentes for Chez Borges (France, 2004)
• Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez for best literary criticism (Spain, 2002)
• Prix France Culture (Etranger), for Dans la forêt du miroir (France, 2001)
• Prix Médicis Essai, for Une Histoire de la lecture (France, 1998)
• Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 1996)
• Harbourfront Award for Contribution to the Arts (Canada, 1992)
• Canadian Writers' Association Award , fiction (Canada, 1992)
• McKitterick First Novel Award (UK, 1992)
• Lewis Gallantière Translation Prize (honourable mention), American Translators Association (USA, 1986)
• German Critics Award for Von Atlantis bis Utopia, German translation of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Germany, 1981)
• Literary Award La Nación for short stories (Buenos Aires, 1971)

• Boyd Tonkin, The Spirit of the Shelves (The Independent, London, April 25, 2008)
• Italo Calvino, The Book of Sand (Article on The Dictionary of Imaginary Places)
• Georges Steiner, reviews of History of Reading and Into the Looking-Glass Wood (New Yorker Magazine)
• P.D. James, review of History of Reading (Sunday Times)
• Jeanette Winterson, review of Reading Pictures (Times Literary Supplement)
• Peter Conrad, review of The Library at Night
• Peter Ackroyd, review of The Library at Night
• Hector Bianciotti, Une Passion en toutes lettres (Gallimard, 2001) (Essay on Manguel)
• Peter Kemp, The Oxford Book of Literary Quotations (Oxford University Press, 1997)