Poetry collections
- The Colossus and Other Poems (1960, William Heinemann)
- Ariel (1965, Faber and Faber)
- Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968, Turret Books)[127]
- Crossing the Water (1971, Faber and Faber)
- Winter Trees (1971, Faber and Faber)
- The Collected Poems (1981, Faber and Faber)
- Selected Poems (1985, Faber and Faber)
- Ariel: The Restored Edition (2004, Faber and Faber)
Collected prose and novels
- The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" (novel, 1963, Heinemann)
- Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975, Harper & Row, US; Faber and Faber, UK)
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977, Faber and Faber)
- The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982, Dial Press)
- The Magic Mirror (1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis
-
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil (2000, Anchor Books)[77]
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.
- The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (2017, Faber and Faber)
- The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (2018, Faber and Faber)
- Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (2019, Faber and Faber)[128][129]
Children's books
- The Bed Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake (1976, Faber and Faber)
- The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit (1996, Faber and Faber)
- Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001, Faber and Faber)
- Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001, Faber and Faber)
