Novels
- The Origin of the Brunists (1966)
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968)
- A Political Fable (1968); reprinted as The Cat in the Hat for President: A Fable (2018)
- The Public Burning (1977)
- Spanking the Maid (1982)
- Gerald's Party (1986)
- Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? (1987)
- Pinocchio in Venice (1991)
- Dr. Chen's Amazing Adventure (1991)
- John's Wife (1996)
- Briar Rose (1996)
- Ghost Town (1998)
- The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Director's Cut (2002)
- The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) (2002)
- Stepmother (2004)
- Noir (2010)
- The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014)
- Huck Out West (2017)
- The Enchanted Prince (2018)
- Street Cop (with Art Spiegelman) (2021)
- Open House (2023)
Collections
- Pricksongs & Descants (1969)
- In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters (1983)
- A Night at the Movies or, You Must Remember This (1987)
- '[A Child Again (2005)
- Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (2018)[29]
Uncollected Stories
- “Blackdamp.” Noble Savage, no. 4 (October 1961), 218-29.
- “The Square Shooter and the Saint: A Story about Jerusalem.” Evergreen Review, no. 25 (July/August 1962): 92-101.
- “Dinner with the King of England.” Evergreen Review, no. 27 (November/December 1962): 110-18.
- “D.D. Baby.” Cavalier, July 1963, 53-56, 93.
- “The Neighbors.” Argosy, January 1966, 129-33.
- “Letter from Patmos.” Quarterly Review of Literature, no. 16, 1969, 29-31.
- “That the Door Opened.” Quarterly Review of Literature, no. 16, 1969, 311-17.
- “The Reunion.” Iowa Review 1.4 (Fall 1970): 64-67.
- “Party Talk: Unheard Conversation at Gerald’s Party. Fiction International 18.2 (Spring 1990): 187-203.
- “A Sudden Story.” TriQuarterly, no. 78, Spring/Summer 1990, 396.
- “Touch.” Paris Review 40.149 (Winter 1998): 155-59.
- “The Photographer.” Fence Magazine 2.2 (Fall/Winter 1999-2000): 30-41.
- “On Mrs. Willie Masters.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 24.3 (Fall 2004): 10-23.
- “Ten Minutes in the Orxatería La Valenciana.” Storie, Afternoon Anthology, no. 42/43, 2008, 227.
- “Red-Hot Ruby.” Conjunctions, no. 50, Spring 2008, 450-69.
- "The Case of the Severed Hand." Harper's Magazine, June 2008.
- "White-Bread Jesus". Harper's Magazine, December 2008.
- "The War Between Sylvania and Freedonia." Harper’s Magazine, July 2010, 62-66.
- "An Encounter". Fortnightly Review, 2010.
- "The Old Man".Fortnightly Review, 2011.
- “The Box.” Conjunctions, no. 56, Spring 2011, 221-27.
- "Matinée". New Yorker, 25 July 2011, 67-71.
- "Vampire". Granta, 21 October 2011.
- "The Colonel’s Daughter". New Yorker, 2 September 2013.
- "The Frog Prince". New Yorker, 27 January 2014.
- "The Waitress". New Yorker, 19 May 2014.
- "The Crabapple Tree". New Yorker, 12 January 2015.
- "The Hanging of the Schoolmarm". New Yorker, 28 November 2016.
- "The Wall". Conjunctions, no. 68, Spring 2017.
- "The Boss". New Yorker, 2 August 2017.
- "M*rphed". Granta, 20 October 2017.
- "Treatments". New Yorker, 30 April 2018.
- "Hulk". Granta, 10 June 2019.
- "Citizen Punch". New Yorker, 18 July 2019.
Plays
- The Kid (1970)
- Love Scene (1971)
- Rip Awake (1972)
- A Theological Position (1972)
Other
- The Water Pourer (1972) An unpublished chapter from The Origin of the Brunists, signed by author and limited to 300 copies. 22 pages.
- "The End of Books". The New York Times. June 21, 1992. (essay)
- "The Bad Book". On the Bible
