• 1978: Miles Franklin Award for Tirra Lirra by the River
• 1978: Australian Natives Association Literary Awards for Tirra Lirra by the River
• 1980: Miles Franklin Award for The Impersonators
• 1981: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction for The Impersonators
• 1987: The Age Book of the Year for Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories

Novels

• An Ordinary Lunacy (1963)
• The Last Man's Head (1970)
• The Commandant (1975)
• Tirra Lirra by the River (1978)
• The Impersonators (1980) (Published in the USA as The Only Daughter)
• Taking Shelter (1989)
• One of the Wattle Birds (1994)

Short story collections

• Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (1987)

• Anderson, Jessica (2003) "Starting Too Late" in Meanjin Vol. 61 No. 2, pp. 209-216.
• Barry, Elaine (1992) Fabricating the Self: The Fictions of Jessica Anderson, St Lucia: UQP.
• Bird, Delys (1980) "Review of Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson" in Westerly No. 25, pp. 78-80.
• Blair, Ruth (1987) "Jessica Anderson's Mysteries" in Island Magazine No. 31, pp. 10-15.
• Haynes, Roslyn (1986) "Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra by the River" in Australian Literary Studies No. 12, pp. 316-23.
• Quigley, Marion (1995) Homesick: Women's Entrapment within the Father's House: A Comparative Study of the fiction of Helen Garner, Beverley Farmer, Jessica Anderson and Elizabeth Harrower PhD Thesis. Monash University.
• Sykes, Alrene (1986) "Jessica Anderson: Arrivals and Places" in Southerly Vol 46 No. 1 pp. 57-71.