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Humorous fantasy

• Expecting Someone Taller (1987), based on the mythology of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
• Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988), based on Norse mythology and history.
• Flying Dutch (1991), based on the story of the Flying Dutchman.
• Ye Gods! (1992), based on elements of Greek mythology including a parody of Heracles.
• Overtime (1993), based on the legend of Blondel combined with time travel.
• Here Comes the Sun (1993), based loosely on the Celestial Bureaucracy reinterpreted along the lines of the British civil service.
• Grailblazers (1994), based on Arthurian romance and the quest for the Holy Grail.
• Faust Among Equals (1994), an imagined continuation of the story of Faust.
• Odds & Gods (1995), which features assorted pantheons and their adventures after "retirement".
• Djinn Rummy (1995), based on the antics of various bottle-trapped djinn along the lines of a modern Aladdin.
• My Hero (1996), in which literary characters can move between fiction and the real world. One of the main characters is Hamlet.
• Paint Your Dragon (1996), based on the adventures of statues carved to portray the legend of St George slaying the dragon.
• Open Sesame (1997), based on characters from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
• Wish You Were Here (1998), in which a lake spirit grants four people their heart's desire whether they like it or not.
• Only Human (1999), in which four human souls are switched respectively with a machine, a painting, a lemming and a demon.
• Snow White and the Seven Samurai (1999), based on fairy tales (Brothers Grimm and others) making a world within a computer simulation.
• Valhalla (2000), based on ideas from Norse mythology and the notion of tailoring an afterlife to suit the client.
• Nothing But Blue Skies (2001), which features Chinese dragons which cause rain, and the problems caused when one of them falls in love with a human.
• Falling Sideways (2002), which features human cloning and interference from a race of powerful alien frogs.
• Little People (2002), in which a boy sees elves, and discovers they are being shrunk, imprisoned and enslaved.
• Featuring J.W. Wells & Co., the magic firm from The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan:
• The Portable Door (2003), which features office politics with a magical twist.
• In Your Dreams (2004), in which the Fey use people's dreams to try to invade the world of humans.
• Earth, Air, Fire, and Custard (2005).
• You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps (2006).
• The Better Mousetrap (2008).
• May Contain Traces of Magic (2009).
• Someone Like Me (2006).
• Barking (2007), based on the mythology of vampires and werewolves transposed into modern day legal firms.
• The Blond Bombshell (2010)
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages (2011)

Historical

• The Walled Orchard (1997), which was originally published in two parts as Goatsong (1989) and The Walled Orchard (1990)
• Alexander At The World's End (1999)
• Olympiad (2000)
• Song for Nero (2003)
• Meadowland (2005)

Other

• Poems by Tom Holt (1974) (Collection of early poems)
• continuations of E. F. Benson's "Lucia" series set in Tilling
• Lucia In Wartime (1985) fiction
• Lucia Triumphant (1986) fiction
• I, Margaret (1989) (satirical biography of Margaret Thatcher, with Steve Nallon)
• Bitter lemmings (1997) (Songbook)
• Holt Who Goes There? (2002) (short stories)

• "Impractical Man" — a parody of the song "Practical Man" by Pete Atkin and Clive James.