Novels

Poetry

• Imaginings. London: Putnam, 1960 (Reprinted 1961).
• Against The Cruel Frost. London: Putnam, 1963.
• Object Relations. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1967.
• Old World New World. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. ISBN 0-85391-144-4
• Chance of a Lifetime. London: Anvil Press, 1978.
• Moments in Italy: Poems and Sketches. Richmond, England: The Keepsake Press (An edition of 280 signed and numbered copies).
• Selected Poems: 1961-1978 London: Anvil Press, 1980.

Criticism

• The Quest for Love, 1965;
• Human Hope and the Death Instinct, 1971;
• Sex and Dehumanization, 1972;
• The Masks of Hate, 1972;
• Dylan Thomas; the Code of Night, 1972;
• Gustav Mahler and the Courage to Be, 1975;
• Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence, 1977;
• Lost Bearings in English Poetry, 1977;
• Evolution and the Humanities, 1987;
• The Novel and Authenticity, 1987;
• Further Studies in Philosophical Anthropology, 1988;
• Images of Woman in Literature, 1990;
• The Skeleton in the Wardrobe: the Phantasies of C.S.Lewis, 1991;
• Edith Wharton and the Unsatisfactory Man, 1991;
• Where Lawrence Was Wrong About Woman, 1992;
• Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman, 1993;
• Creativity and Popular Culture, 1994;
• Tolstoy, Woman and Death, 1997;
• Wuthering Heights: A Drama of Being, 1997;
• George MacDonald and the Phantom Woman, 2000;
• Lewis Carroll: Nonsense Against Sorrow, 2000;

Education

Other works

List of other works

• Children’s Games (1957)
• Imaginings (1961) poems
• Lights in the Sky Country: Mary Easter and Stories of East Anglia (1962)
• Llareggub Revisited. Dylan Thomas and the state of modern poetry (1962)
• Thieves and Angels (1962) editor, school drama
• People and Diamonds (1962) editor, school short story anthology
• Against the Cruel Frost (1963) poems
• Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1963) with Christopher Middleton and David Wevill
• English for the Rejected. Training Literacy in the Lower Streams of the Secondary School (1964)
• English in Australia Now. Notes on a visit to Victoria and other states (1964)
• The Secret Places. Essays on Imaginative Work in English Teaching and on the Culture of the Child (1964)
• Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation (1964)
• The Quest for Love (1964)
• Visions of Life (1964) four volumes, editor, prose comprehension
• Iron, Honey, Gold: The Uses of Verse (1965) editor, poetry anthology
• Childhood by Maxim Gorki (1965) abridged, Gertrude M, Foakes translator
• Object Relations (1967) poems
• The Exploring Word: Creative Disciplines in the Education of Teachers of English (1967)
• Children's Writing: a sampler for student teachers (1967)
• The Cambridge Hymnal (1967) compiler with Elizabeth Poston
• Plucking The Rushes (1968) editor
• Old World, New World (1969) poems
• Human Hope and the Death Instinct: An Exploration of Psychoanalytical Theories of Human Nature and their Implications for Culture and Education (1971)
• The Mask of Hate: The Problem of False Solutions in the Culture of an Acquisitive Society' (1972)
• Sex & Dehumanization in Art, Thought, and Life in Our Time (1972)
• Dylan Thomas; the Code of Night (1972)
• The Pseudo-Revolution (1972)
• The Case Against Pornography (1973) editor
• Education, Nihilism and Survival (1974)
• Gustav Mahler and The Courage To Be (1975)
• Sylvia Plath: Poetry and Existence (1976)
• A Play of Passion (1977) novel
• Lost Bearings in English Poetry (1977)
• Chance of a Lifetime (1978) poems
• Moments in Italy: Poems and Sketches (1978)
• A Play of Passion (1978)
• Selected Poems (1980)
• English for Meaning (1980)
• Nothing Larger Than Life (1987) novel
• Evolution and the Humanities (1987)
• The Novel and Authenticity (1987)
• Education and Philosophical Anthropology: Toward a New View of Man for the Humanities and English (1987)
• Worlds Apart (1988) novel
• Further Studies in Philosophical Anthropology (1988)
• Images of Woman in Literature (1989)
• What Is It to Be Human?: New Perspectives in Philosophy (1990)
• A Little Athens (1990) novel
• The Skeleton in the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis's Fantasies: A Phenomenological Study (1991)
• Edith Wharton and the Unsatisfactory Man (1991)
• Where Lawrence Was Wrong About Woman (1992)
• Jennifer (1992) novel
• Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman (1993)
• The Gold In Father's Heart (1992) novel
• Creativity and Popular Culture (1994)
• Even If They Fail (1994) novel
• Tolstoy, Woman, and Death. A Study of War and Peace and Anna Karenina (1997)
• Wuthering Heights: A Drama of Being (1997)
• Getting It Wrong With Uncle Tom (1998) novel
• Bringing Everything Home (1999) poems
• A Study of George MacDonald and the Image of Women (2000)
• Lewis Carroll: Nonsense Against Sorrow (2000)
• Bad Trip in a Tired Whale (2001)

• Holbrook, David. Flesh Wounds (London: Methuen, 1966) ISBN 9781862273917
• Holbrook, David. A Play of Passion (London: W. H. Allen, 1978) ISBN 0491022824 Reprinted Norwich: Mousehold, 2004 ISBN 1-874739-33-1
• Holbrook, David. Going Off The Rails (London: Capella, 2003) ISBN 1-902918-14-2