Fiasco Hall, poems, private printing, 1943

The Cannibal, New Directions, 1949

Charivari, New Directions II, 1949

The Beetle Leg, New Directions, 1951

The Goose on the Grave and The Owl, New Directions, 1954

The Lime Twig, New Directions, 1961

Second Skin, New Directions, 1964

The Innocent Party (Four Short Plays), New Directions, 1966

Lunar Landscapes (Stories and Short Novels), New Directions, 1969

The Blood Oranges, New Directions, 1971

Death, Sleep, and the Traveler, New Directions, 1974

Travesty, New Directions, 1976

I Applaud the Dark Night (Selections from Travesty), The Ravine Press, 1976

The Passion Artist, Harper and Row, 1978, New Directions, 1979

Virginie: Her Two Lives, Harper and Row, 1981

Humors of Blood and Skin: A John Hawkes Reader, New Directions, 1984

Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, Simon and Schuster, 1985

Innocence in Extremis, Burning Deck, 1985; Grenfell Press, 1985

Whistlejacket: A Novel, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988

Island Fire , Burning Deck, 1988

Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse, Simon and Schuster, 1993

The Frog, Viking, 1996

An Irish Eye, Viking, 1997