Long Fiction:''A Quality of Mercy'', 1961
''Tenement of Clay'', 1965
''Alley Jaggers'', 1966
''I'm Expecting to Live Quite Soon'', 1970
''Caliban's Filibuster'', 1971
''Bela Lugosi's White Christmas'', 1972
''Colonel Mint'', 1972
''Gala'', 1976
''The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg'', 1980
''Rat Man of Paris'', 1986
''The Place in Flowers, Where Pollen Rests'', 1988
''Lord Byron's Doctor'', 1989
''The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper'', 1991
''Love's Mansion'', 1992
''The Tent of Orange Mist'', 1995
''Sporting with Amaryllis'', 1996
''A Fifth of November'', 2001
''Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun'', 2002
Short Fiction:
''The Universe and Other Fictions'', 1988
Poetry:''Poems'', 1952
''The Spellbound Horses'', 1960
''The Snow Leopard'', 1964
''Alphabet Poetry''
Nonfiction:''The Growth of the Novel'', 1959
''Byron and the Spoiler's Art'', 1960 — 2nd ed. 1992
''I, Said the Sparrow'', 1963
''The Modern Novel'', 1963
''Robert Penn Warren'', 1964
''The Wine of Absurdity: Essays in Literature and Consolation'', 1966
''Words for a Deaf Daughter'', 1969
''Out of My Depths: A Swimmer in the Universe'', 1983
''Sheer Fiction'', 1987
''Portable People'', 1990
''Sheer Fiction, vol. 2'', 1991
''Sheer Fiction, vol. 3'', 1994
''A Stroke of Genius: Illness and Self-Discovery'', 1995
''Master Class, Scenes From A Fiction Workshop'', 2001
''The Shadow Factory'', 2008
Edited Text:''Byron: Twentieth Century Views'', 1963