1. The Naked and the Dead (New York: Rinehart, 1948), novel.
  2. Barbary Shore (New York: Rinehart, 1951), novel.
  3. The Deer Park (New York: Putnam, 1955), novel.
  4. The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959), essay.
  5. Advertisements for Myself (New York: Putnam, 1959), miscellany.
  6. Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (New York: Putnam, 1962), poems.
  7. The Presidential Papers (New York: Putnam, 1963), miscellany.
  8. An American Dream (New York: Dial, 1965), novel.
  9. Cannibals and Christians (New York: Dial, 1966), miscellany.
  10. The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (New York: Dell, 1967; published with material from Existential Errands under the title The Essential Mailer, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982).
  11. The Deer Park: A Play (New York: Dial, 1967).
  12. Why Are We in Vietnam? (New York: Putnam, 1967), novel.
  13. The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer (New York: Macmillan, 1967).
  14. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History (New York: New American Library, 1968), nonfiction narrative.
  15. The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (New York: Dell, 1968), miscellany.
  16. Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (New York: New American Library, 1968), nonfiction narrative.
  17. Of a Fire on the Moon (Boston: Little Brown, 1971), nonfiction narrative.
  18. King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century (New York: New American Library, 1971), essay.
  19. The Prisoner of Sex (Boston: Little Brown, 1971), essay.
  20. Maidstone: A Mystery (New York: New American Library, 1971), screenplay.
  21. The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (edited with an introduction by Robert F. Lucid, New York: World, 1971).
  22. Existential Errands (Boston: Little Brown, 1972), miscellany.
  23. St. George and the Godfather (New York: New American Library, 1972), nonfiction narrative.
  24. Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World’s Foremost Photographers (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973).
  25. The Faith of Graffiti. With Mervyn Kurlansky, Jon Naar and Lawrence Schiller (New York: Praeger, 1974), essay.
  26. The Fight (Boston: Little Brown, 1975), nonfiction narrative.
  27. Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960–1972 (Boston: Little Brown, 1976), anthology.
  28. Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller (New York: Grove, 1976), essay and collection.
  29. A Transit to Narcissus (New York: Howard Fertig, 1978), novel.
  30. The Executioner’s Song (Boston: Little Brown, 1979), nonfiction narrative.
  31. Of Women and Their Elegance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980), novel.
  32. Pieces and Pontifications (Boston: Little Brown, 1982; Pieces and Pontifications also published simultaneously by Little Brown as two softcovers; Pontifications edited by J. Michael Lennon with introduction), miscellany.
  33. Ancient Evenings (Boston: Little Brown, 1983), novel.
  34. Tough Guys Don’t Dance (New York: Random House, 1984), novel.
  35. Conversations with Norman Mailer (edited with an introduction by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988).
  36. Harlot’s Ghost (New York: Random House, 1991), novel.
  37. Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (New York: Random House, 1995), nonfiction narrative.
  38. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995).
  39. The Gospel According to the Son (New York: Random House, 1997), novel.
  40. The Time of Our Time (New York: Random House, 1998), retrospective anthology.
  41. The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing (edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York: Random House, 2003), miscellany.
  42. Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (New York: Random House, 2003).
  43. Why Are We at War? (New York: Random House, 2003), essay.
  44. Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 (edited by J. Michael Lennon. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press, 2004).
  45. The Big Empty. With John Buffalo Mailer (New York: Nation Books, 2006), conversations.
  46. The Castle in the Forest (New York: Random House, 2007), novel.
  47. On God: An Uncommon Conversation. With Michael Lennon (New York: Random House, 2007).