Novels and Short Story Collections:

Waldo (1967)

Fong and the Indians (1968)

Murder in Mount Holly (1969)

Girls at Play (1971)

Jungle Lovers (1971)

Sinning with Annie (short stories, 1972)

Saint Jack (1973)

The Black House (1974)

The Family Arsenal (1976)

The Consul's File (linked short stories, 1977)

Picture Palace (1978)

A Christmas Card (1978)

London Snow (1980)

World's End (short stories, 1980)

The Mosquito Coast (1981)

The London Embassy (linked short stories, 1982)

Doctor Slaughter (1984) – filmed as Half Moon Street (1986)

O-Zone (1986)

The White Man's Burden (1987)

My Secret History (1989)

Chicago Loop (1990)

Millroy the Magician (1993)

The Greenest Island (1995)

My Other Life (1996)

Kowloon Tong (1997)

Hotel Honolulu (2001)

Nurse Wolf and Dr. Sacks (2001)

Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro (novellas and short stories, 2004)

Blinding Light (2006)

The Elephanta Suite (three novellas, 2007)

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta (2009)

The Lower River (2012)

Mr. Bones (2014)

Non-fiction:

V. S. Naipaul, an Introduction to His Work (1972)

The Great Railway Bazaar (1975)

The Old Patagonian Express (1979)

The Kingdom by the Sea (1983)

Sailing Through China (1984)

Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985)

The Imperial Way (1985)

Riding the Iron Rooster (1988)

To the Ends of the Earth (1990)

The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992)

The Pillars of Hercules (1995)

Sir Vidia's Shadow (1998)

Fresh Air Fiend (2000)

Dark Star Safari (2002)

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (2008)

The Tao of Travel (2011)

The Last Train to Zona Verde (2013)

Best American Travel Writing 2014 (2014)

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (2015)