Astronomer's Wife Kay Boyle

Novels

• Process (written in 1925, unpublished until 2001 )
• Plagued by the Nightingale (1931)
• Year Before Last (1932)
• Gentlemen, I Address You Privately (1933)
• My Next Bride (1934)
• Death of a Man (1936)
• Yellow Dusk (Bettina Bedwell) (ghostwritten) (1937)[14]
• Monday Night (1938)
• The Crazy Hunter: Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter, The Bridegroom's Body, and Big Fiddle) (1940)
• Primer for Combat (1942)
• Avalanche (1944)
• A Frenchman Must Die (1946)
• 1939 (1948)
• His Human Majesty (1949),
• The Seagull on the Step (1955)
• Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter,The Bridegroom's Body, Decision) (1958)
• Generation Without Farewell (1960)
• The Underground Woman (1975)
• Winter Night (1993)

Story collections

• Short Stories (1929)
• Wedding Day and Other Stories (1930)
• The First Lover and Other Stories (1933)
• The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories (1935) (The title story was winner of the O. Henry Award)
• Thirty Stories (1946) (Includes Defeat (1941), winner of the O. Henry Award)
• The Smoking Mountain: Stories of Postwar Germany (1951)
• Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart (1966)
• Fifty Stories (1980)
• Life Being the Best and Other Stories (1988)

Juvenile

• The Youngest Camel (1939), revised edition published as The Youngest Camel: Reconsidered and Rewritten (1959)
• Pinky, the Cat Who Liked to Sleep (1966)
• Pinky in Persia (1968)

Poetry collections

• A Statement (1932)
• A Glad Day (1938)
• American Citizen: Naturalized in Leadville (1944)
• Collected Poems (1962)
• The Lost Dogs of Phnom Pehn (1968)
• Testament for My Students and Other Poems (1970)
• A Poem for February First (1975)
• This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems (1985)
• Collected Poems of Kay Boyle (Copper Canyon Press, 1991)

Non-fiction

• Relations & Complications. Being the Recollections of H.H. The Dayang Muda of Sarawak. (1929), Forew. by T.P. O'Connor (Gladys Milton Brooke) (ghost-written)[14]
• Breaking the Silence: Why a Mother Tells Her Son about the Nazi Era (1962)
• The Last Rim of The World in "Why Work Series" (1966)
• Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 (1968; with Robert McAlmon)
• Winter Night and a conversation with the author in New Sounds In American Fiction (1969)
• The Long Walk at San Francisco State and Other Essays (1970)
• Four Visions of America (1977; with others)
• Words That Must Somehow Be Said (edited by Elizabeth Bell; 1985)

Translations

• Don Juan, by Joseph Delteil (New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931)
• Mr Knife, Miss Fork, by René Crevel (Paris: Black Sun Press, 1931). A fragment of Babylon translated into English.
• The Devil in the Flesh, by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: Crosby Continental Editions, 1932)
• Babylon, by René Crevel (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985)