Fiction
City of Glass (Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1985)
Ghosts (Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1986)
The Locked Room (Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1986)
(Republished in one volume as The New York Trilogy [London: Faber and Faber, 1987; NY: Penguin, 1990])
In the Country of Last Things (NY: Viking, 1987)
Moon Palace (NY: Viking, 1989)
The Music of Chance (NY: Viking, 1990)
Leviathan (NY: Viking, 1992)
Mr. Vertigo (NY: Viking, 1994)
Timbuktu (NY: Holt, 1999)
The Book of Illusions (NY: Holt, 2002)
Oracle Night (NY: Holt, 2003)
Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story (NY: Holt, 2004)
The Brooklyn Follies (NY: Holt, 2005)
Travels in the Scriptorium (NY: Holt, 2006)
Man in the Dark (NY: Holt, 2008)
Invisible (NY: Holt, 2009)
Sunset Park (NY: Holt, 2010)
Poetry
Unearth (Weston, CT: Living Hand 3, Spring 1974)
Wall Writing (Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1976)
Effigies (Paris: Orange Export Ltd., 1977)
Fragments from Cold (Brewster, NY: Parenthèse, 1977)
White Spaces (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1980)
Facing the Music (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1980)
Disappearances: Selected Poems (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1988)
Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979 (London: Faber and Faber, 1991)
Autobiography of the Eye (Portland, OR: Beaverdam Press, 1993)
Collected Poems (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004)
Essays, memoirs, and autobiographies
The Invention of Solitude (NY: SUN, 1982)
The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1992)
The Red Notebook and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1995)
Why Write? (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1995)
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure (NY: Holt, 1997)
The Red Notebook: True Stories (NY: New Directions, 2002)
The Story of My Typewriter, with paintings and drawings by Sam Messer (NY: D.A.P., 2002)
Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists (NY: Picador, 2005; expanded second edition, 2010)
Winter Journal (NY: Holt, 2012)
Edited collections
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: With Translations by American and British Poets (NY: Random House, 1982)
I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project (NY: Holt, 2001); (British edition: True Tales of American Life [London: Faber and Faber, 2002])
Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition (NY: Grove Press, 2006)
Selected Translations
A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems (NY: Siamese Banana Press, 1972)
Fits and Starts: Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin (Weston, CT: Living Hand, 1973)
The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of André du Bouchet (NY: Living Hand, 1976)
Life/Situations: Essays Written and Spoken, by Jean-Paul Sartre (NY: Pantheon, 1977) (with Lydia Davis)
African Trio: Talatala, Tropic Moon, Aboard the Aquitaine, by Georges Simenon (NY: Harcourt, 1979) (with Lydia Davis)
A Tomb for Anatole, by Stéphane Mallarmé (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983; rpt. NY: New Directions, 2005)
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983; rpt. NY: New York Review Books, 2005)
Vicious Circles: Two Fictions and “After the Fact,” by Maurice Blanchot (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1985)
Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986)
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres (NY: Zone Books, 1998)
Filmography
Smoke (1995)
Blue in the Face (1995)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
[In Three Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge (NY: Picador, 2003)]
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (NY: Picador, 2007)