• His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and a Bram Stoker award.
• His second novel, Perdido Street Station, won the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2001 British Fantasy Award, and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and British Science Fiction awards.
• His third novel, The Scar, won the 2003 British Fantasy Award and the 2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, was nominated for the Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, World Fantasy, Locus, Philip K. Dick, and British Science Fiction awards, and received a Philip K. Dick Award special citation.
• His fourth novel, Iron Council, won the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
• His short story "Reports of Certain Events in London" (featured in the anthology McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories) was nominated for a 2005 World Fantasy Award and tied for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
• His fifth novel, Un Lun Dun, won the 2008 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book.
• He has been a Guest of Honour at multiple science fiction conventions, including Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in London in March 2008 and Readercon 2006.
• The City & the City won the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 2010 Hugo Award, as well as being a World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award nominee in the Best Novel category.

Novels and novellas

• King Rat (1998)
• Perdido Street Station (2000)?
• The Scar (2002)?
• The Tain (2002)
• Iron Council (2004)?
• Un Lun Dun (2007)
• The City & the City (2009)
• Kraken (2010)
• Embassytown (May 2011)

Short fiction

• "Highway Sixty One Revisited" (in Young Words, 1986)
• "Looking for Jake" (in Neonlit Vol. 1, edited by Nicholas Royle, 1999)
• "Different Skies" (in Brit-pulp!, edited by Tony White , 1999)
• "An End to Hunger" (in Book of Internet Stories, edited by Maxim Jakubowski, 2000)
• "Details" (in The Children of Cthulhu, edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams, 2002)
• "Familiar" (in Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, edited by Peter Straub, 2002)
• "Buscard's Murrain" (in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts, 2003)
• "Reports of Certain Events in London" (in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, edited by Michael Chabon, 2004)
• "A Room of One's Own" (in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: Oddest Jobs, edited by Christopher Golden, 2008)
• Hellblazer #250, DC Vertigo 2008
• "Jack" (in The New Weird, 2008)
• "The Rope is the World" (2010)

Collections

• Looking for Jake (collection, 2005)

Nonfiction

• The Borribles: An Introduction, 2001.
• Things That Never Happen: An Introduction, 2002.
• Wizardry and Wild: An Introduction, 2004.
• At the Mountains of Madness: An Introduction, 2005.
• First Men in the Moon: An Introduction, 2005.
• Dagger Key' and Other Stories: An Introduction, 2007.

• ‘The Conspiracy of Architecture: Notes on a Modern Anxiety’, Historical Materialism, 2: 1—32, 1998.
• ‘Marxism and Fantasy: Editorial Introduction’, Historical Materialism, 10, 4: 39—49, 2002.
• ‘The Commodity-Form Theory of International Law: An Introduction’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 17, 2: 271—302, 2004.
• Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, 2005.
• ‘Anxiety and the Sidekick State: British International Law after Iraq’, Harvard International Law Journal, 46, 2: 441—458, 2005.
• ‘Floating Utopias’, in Davis, Mike and Daniel Bertrand Monk (eds.), Evil Paradises: Dreamworld of Neoliberalism ( New York: New Press), 2007.
• ‘M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire - Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or?’, Collapse, IV: 85—108, 2008.
• ‘Weird Fiction’, in Mark Bould and Sherryl Vint et al. (eds), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (London: Routledge), 2009.
• ‘Cognition as Ideology: A Dialectic of SF Theory’, in Mark Bould and China Miéville (eds), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (London: Pluto Press), 2009.
• ‘Multilateralism as Terror: International Law, Haiti and Imperialism’, Finnish Yearbook of International Law, 18, 2009.

As editor

• Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (co-editor), 2009.

• In 2006 it was announced that Miéville's short story Details (collected in Looking for Jake) was turned into a script by Dan Kay, and subsequently picked up by studio Paramount Vantage. The script was said to expand upon the original story's exploration of pareidolia and rework the plot to feature a father and daughter. As of September 2008 no further information has surfaced regarding the project.
• Miéville's world of Bas-Lag, and the city of New Crobuzon, will be the focus of Adamant Entertainment's upcoming RPG, Tales of New Crobuzon. It is scheduled for release in fall 2009.
• Miéville's novel The Scar is the inspiration for the Armada-Breakaway floating sim in the virtual world of Second Life. The region is described as having evolved after a storm causes it to breakaway from Armada, the pirate city in Miéville's story.