The Loving Spirit, novel (London: Heinemann, 1931)
I’ll Never Be Young Again, novel (London: Heinemann, 1932)
The Progress of Julius, novel (London: Heinemann, 1933)
Gerald: A Portrait, nonfiction (London: Gollancz, 1934)
Jamaica Inn, novel (London: Gollancz, 1936)
The du Mauriers, nonfiction (London: Gollancz, 1937)
Rebecca, novel (London: Gollancz, 1938)
Come Wind, Come Weather, short stories (London: Heinemann, 1940)
Frenchman’s Creek, novel (London: Gollancz, 1941)
Hungry Hill, novel (London: Gollancz, 1943)
The Years Between, play (London: Gollancz, 1945)
The King’s General, novel (London: Gollancz, 1946)
September Tide, play (London: Gollancz, 1949)
The Parasites, novel (London: Gollancz, 1949)
My Cousin Rachel, novel (London: Gollancz, 1951
The Birds and Other Stories, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1952)
Mary Anne, novel (London: Gollancz, 1954)
The Scapegoat, novel (London: Gollancz, 1957)
The Breaking Point, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1959)
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, biography (London: Gollancz, 1960)
Castle Dor (with A. Quiller-Couch), novel (London: J. M. Dent, 1962)
The Glass-Blowers, novel (London: Gollancz, 1963)
The Flight of the Falcon, novel (London: Gollancz, 1965)
Vanishing Cornwall (London: Gollancz, 1967)
The House on the Strand, novel (London: Gollancz, 1969)
Not After Midnight, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1971)
Rule Britannia, novel (London: Gollancz, 1972)
Golden Lads: Anthony Bacon, Francis and Their Friends, biography (London: Gollancz, 1975)
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall, biography (London: Gollancz, 1976)
Echoes from the Macabre, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1976)
Growing Pains: The Shaping of a Writer, nonfiction (London: Gollancz, 1977)
The Rendezvous and Other Stories, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1980)
The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, nonfiction (London: Gollancz, 1981)
Classics from the Macabre, short stories (London: Gollancz, 1987)
The Doll, short stories (London: Virago Press, 2011)