FICTION
The Edible Woman (1969)
Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle (1976)
Dancing Girls (1977)
Life Before Man (1979)
Bodily Harm (1981)
Murder in the Dark (1983)
Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Cat's Eye (1988)
Wilderness Tips (1991)
Good Bones (1992)
The Robber Bride (1993)
Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin (2000)
Oryx and Crake (2003)
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005)
The Year of the Flood (2009)
MaddAddam (2013)
The Heart Goes Last (2015)

ESSAYS/SHORT STORIES
The Tent (2006)
Moral Disorder: And Other Stories (2006)
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (2014)

FOR CHILDREN
Up in the Tree (1978)
Anna's Pet (1980) - with Joy Barkhouse
For the Birds (1990)
Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2004)
Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery (2011)
The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie (2014)

NONFICTION
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977)
Second Words (1982)
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1996)
Two Solicitudes: Conversations (1998) - with Victor-Levy Beaulieu
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
Moving Targets: Writing with Intent (2004)
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose - 1983-2005 (2005)
Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing (2005)
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)

POETRY
Double Persephone (1961)
The Circle Game (1967)
The Animals in that Country (1968)
The Journals of Suzanne Moodie (1970)
Procedures for Underground (1970)
Power Politics (1973)
You Are Happy (1974)
Selected Poems (1976)
Two-Headed Poems (1978)
True Stories (1981)
Interlunar (1984)
Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986 (1987)
Morning in the Burned House (1995)
The Door (2007)