Romans / Novels
• Americana (1971)
• End Zone (1972)
• Great Jones Street (1973)
• L'Étoile de Ratner (Ratner's Star, 1976)
• Joueurs (Players, 1977)
• Chien Galeux (Running Dog, 1978)
• Amazons (1980)
• Les Noms (The Names, 1982)
• Bruits de fond (White Noise, 1985)
• Libra (1988)
• Mao II (1991)
• Outremonde (Underworld, 1997)
• Body Art (The Body Artist, 2001)
• Cosmopolis (Cosmopolis, 2003)
• L'Homme qui tombe (Falling Man, 2007)
• Point Oméga (Point Omega, 2010)
• Zero K, 2016

Short stories
• The River Jordan (1960)
• Take the A Train (1962)
• Spaghetti and Meatballs (1965)
• Coming Sun.Mon.Tues. (1966)
• Baghdad Towers West (1967)
• The Uniforms (1970)
• In the Men's Room of the Sixteenth Century (1971)
• Total Lost Weekend (1972)
• Creation (1979)
• The Sightings (1979)
• Human Moments in World War III (1983)
• The Ivory Acrobat (1988)
• The Runner (1988)
• Pafko at the Wall (1992)
• The Angel Esmeralda (1995)
• Baader-Meinhof (2002)
• Still Life (2007)
• Midnight in Dostoevsky (2009)
• The Border of Fallen Bodies (2009)
• Hammer and Sickle (2010)
• L’Ange Esmeralda (The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, 2011)

Pièces / Plays
• The Engineer of Moonlight (1979)
• The Day Room (1986)
• Valparaiso (1999)
• Cœur-saignant-d’amour (Love-Lies-Bleeding, 2005)
• The Word for Snow (2007)

Essays
• American Blood: A Journey through the Labyrinth of Dallas and JFK (1983)
• Salman Rushdie Defense (1994) (Co-written with Paul Auster)
• The Artist Naked in a Cage (1997)
• The Power of History (1997)
• A History of the Writer Alone in a Room (1999)
• In the Ruins of the Future (2001)