Novels
- The Lying Days (1953)
- A World of Strangers (1958)
- Occasion for Loving (1963)
- The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
- A Guest of Honour (1970)
- The Conservationist (1974) – joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974
- Burger's Daughter (1979)
- July's People (1981)
- A Sport of Nature (1987)
- My Son's Story (1990)
- None to Accompany Me (1994)
- The House Gun (1998)
- The Pickup (2001)
- Get a Life (2005)
- No Time Like the Present (2012)[71]
Plays
- The First Circle, in Six One-act Plays by South African Authors (1949)
Short fiction
Collections
- Face to Face (1949)
- The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952)
- Six Feet of the Country (1956)
- Which New Era Would That Be? (1956)
- Friday's Footprint (1960)
- Not for Publication (1965)
- Livingstone's Companions (1970)
- Selected Stories (1975)
- Some Monday for Sure (1976)
- No Place Like: Selected Stories (1978)
- A Soldier's Embrace (1980)
- Town and Country Lovers (1982), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
- Something Out There (1984)
- Correspondence Course and other Stories (1984)
- The Moment Before the Gun Went Off (1988)
- Once Upon a Time (1989)
- Crimes of Conscience (1991)
- Jump: And Other Stories (1991)
- Why Haven't You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972 (1992)
- Something for the Time Being 1950-1972 (1992)
- Loot and Other Stories (2003)
- Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black (2007)
- "A Beneficiary" (2007)[72]
- Life Times: Stories (2011)
Essays, reporting and other contributions
- What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works (1980)
- The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places (1988)
- The Black Interpreters (1973)
- Writing and Being: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1995)
- Living in Hope and History (1999)
- Gordimer, Nadine (16 December 2013). "Nelson Mandela". The Talk of the Town. Postscript. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 41. pp. 24, 26.
Edited works
- Telling Tales (2004)
- Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950–2008 (2010)
Other
- The Gordimer Stories (1981–82) – adaptations of seven short stories; she wrote screenplays for four of them
- On the Mines (1973)
- Lifetimes Under Apartheid (1986)
- Choosing for Justice: Allan Boesak (1983) (documentary with Hugo Cassirer)
- Berlin and Johannesburg: The Wall and the Colour Bar (documentary with Hugo Cassirer)
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