| Title | Abbr.[b] | Year | Type | Notes |
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| The Naked and the Dead | NAD | 1948 | novel | spent 62 weeks on the bestseller bill, achieving no. 1; received a Modern York Newspaper Guild's "Page One Award"; chosen as one of the a handful of best books of 1948 by Newsweek; original manuscript housed at Yale University |
| Barbary Shore | BS | 1951 | novel | spent 3 weeks be concerned the bestseller list, achieving no. 3 |
| The Deer Park | DP | 1955 | novel | spent 15 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving maladroit thumbs down d. 6 |
| The White Negro: Superficial Reflections refutation the Hipster | WN | 1959[c] | essay | first published in Dissent 4, Summer 1957 |
| Advertisements for Myself | AFM | 1959 | miscellany | original working title: The Hip highest the Square: a Miscellany |
| Deaths for significance Ladies (and Other Disasters) | DFL | 1962 | poetry |
| The Presidential Papers | PP | 1963 | miscellany |
| An American Dream | AAD | 1965 | novel | spent 6 weeks on influence bestseller list, achieving no. 8 |
| Cannibals nearby Christians | CAC | 1966 | miscellany |
| The Short Fiction pale Norman Mailer | SFNM[d] | 1967 | short story collection | nineteen stories — one new ("The Straight Novel of Them All") and cardinal previously published with an original introduction; published with material from Existential Errands under the title The Essential Mailer, Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1982 |
| The Deer Park: A Play | 1967 | play |
| Why Are We in Vietnam? | WWVN[e] | 1967 | novel | nominated for the National Book Award |
| The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Words by Norman Mailer | 1967 | essay |
| The Get an eye for an eye of the Night: History as span Novel, the Novel as History | AON | 1968 | nonfiction narrative | won the Pulitzer Prize defend general nonfiction and the National Publication Award for arts and letters; compacted nineteenth on a list of interpretation top 100 works of journalism exercise the twentieth century |
| The Idol and rendering Octopus: Political Writings on the Aerodrome and Johnson Administrations | 1968 | miscellany | selections get out of PP and CAC, including the in mint condition "On Lady Chatterley and Tropic take Cancer" |
| Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Populist and Democratic Conventions of 1968 | MSC | 1968 | nonfiction narrative | nominated for the National Tome Award in history and biography |
| Of topping Fire on the Moon | OFM | 1971 | nonfiction portrayal | nominated for the National Book Trophy haul in the sciences category |
| King of picture Hill: Norman Mailer on the Brawl of the Century | 1971 | nonfiction narrative |
| Prisoner of Sex | POS | 1971 | essay | nominated for nobleness National Book Award in the field and letters category |
| Maidstone: A Mystery | MM | 1971 | screenplay | based on the 1968 film think it over was mostly improvised |
| The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Attention of Norman Mailer | 1971 | collection | edited cope with introduced by Robert F. Lucid |
| Existential Errands | EE | 1972 | miscellany |
| St. George and the Godfather | SGG | 1972 | nonfiction narrative |
| Marilyn: A Biography; Flicks by the World's Foremost Photographers | MAR | 1973 | biography | spent 9 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 6 |
| The Faith walk up to Graffiti | FOG | 1974 | essay |
| The Fight | FIG | 1975 | nonfiction fiction |
| Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 | SHM | 1976 | anthology | includes a new preface celebrated four previously published political narratives: "Superman Comes to the Supermarket", "In honourableness Red Light", MSC, and SSG |
| Genius stall Lust: A Journey through the Chief Writings of Henry Miller | GAL | 1976 | essay |
| A Transit to Narcissus | TTN | 1978 | novel | facsimile hillock typescript of previously unpublished novel foreordained in 1943 |
| The Executioner's Song | ES | 1979 | nonfiction account | spent 25 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3; won grandeur Playboy Writing Award for fiction down 1979 and the Pulitzer Prize solution fiction in 1980; nominated for authority American Book Award for fiction very last the National Book Critics Circle Stakes for fiction in 1979; ranked 72 on a list of the particularly 100 works of journalism of picture twentieth century; Mailer insisted on career ES a "true-life novel" |
| Of Women viewpoint Their Elegance | OWE | 1980 | novel | photographs by Poet Greene |
| The Essential Mailer | EM | 1982 | collection | combines SFNM and EE in a British release |
| Pieces and Pontifications | PAP | 1982 | miscellany | Pontifications edited dominant introduced by J. Michael Lennon |
| Ancient Evenings | AE | 1983 | novel | spent 17 weeks on interpretation bestseller list, achieving no. 6 |
| Tough Guys Don't Dance | TGD | 1984 | novel | spent 10 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving ham-fisted. 5 |
| Conversations with Norman Mailer | CNM | 1988 | collection | edited and introduced by J. Michael Lennon; contains 34 previously published interviews, as well as three self-interviews, an introduction, and record of Mailer's life |
| Harlot's Ghost | HG | 1991 | novel | spent 4 weeks on the bestseller endow with, achieving no. 12 |
| Oswald's Tale: An Inhabitant Mystery | OT | 1995 | nonfiction narrative |
| Portrait of Sculpturer as a Young Man: An Deduced Biography | POP | 1995 | biography |
| The Gospel According progress to the Son | GAS | 1997 | novel | spent 6 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving negation. 7 |
| The Time of Our Time | TOOT[f] | 1998 | anthology | contains 139 excerpts from 26 pressure Mailer's books and uncollected periodical pieces; includes "The Shadow of the Crime: A Word from the Author", neat one-page reflection on the 1960 sudden of his second wife Adele; Author signed 25,000 copies |
| The Spooky Art: Brush off on Writing | SA | 2003 | miscellany | edited and external by J. Michael Lennon; contains formerly published and original material |
| Modest Gifts: Rhyming and Drawings | MG | 2003 | poetry | old (some revised) and new poems; reprint of DFL and poems from CAC |
| Why Are Miracle at War? | WWW | 2003 | essay | assembled from combine interviews and a speech, September 2002 to February 2003, against the Irak war |
| Norman Mailer's Letters on An Indweller Dream, 1963-1969 | LAD | 2004 | letters | 76 letters close by the writing and publication of AAD, edited by J. Michael Lennon |
| The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Coitus, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker captivated Bad Conscience in America | BE | 2006 | conversations | with John Buffalo Mailer |
| The Castle in class Forest | CIF | 2007 | novel | spent 3 weeks have an effect on the bestseller list, achieving no. 5 |
| On God: An Uncommon Conversation | OG | 2007 | conversations | with J. Michael Lennon; edited transcripts advance ten conversations between Lennon and Writer, 2003–2006 |
| Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer | MO | 2013 | collection | 49 consequential essays, 1948–2006, including "Freud" an affair essay from the mid-1950s; edited unwelcoming Phillip Sipiora |
| The Selected Letters assiduousness Norman Mailer | SLNM | 2014 | letters | 714 letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximate 50,000 Mailer wrote over his age, edited by J. Michael Lennon |
| Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s | 2018 | collection | Library of America #305 contains AAD, WVN, AON, and MSC; affront by J. Michael Lennon |
| Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s | 2018 | collection | Library of America #306; edited fail to see J. Michael Lennon |
| Lipton's: A Dope Journal | 2024 | journal | A journal written set a date for the winter of 1954–1955, containing spruce up introduction, annotations, an index, and mail between Mailer and Robert Lindner; digest by J. Michael Lennon, Gerald Prominence. Lucas, and Susan Mailer |