* The Strange Affair of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
* A Spot of Bother (2006)
* The Red House (2012)
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
* Midnight's Children (1981)
* The God of Small Things (1997)
Children's books
* Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader (2007)
* Agent Z Goes Wild (2008)
* Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars (2009)
Short stories
* Z for Zachariah (1974)
* The Great Good Place (1983)
* In Custody (1984)
* Such a Long Journey (1985)
* The English Patient (1992)
* Unaccustomed Earth (1993)
* The Moor's Last Sigh (1995)
* Shalimar the Clown (2005)
* The Sea of Poppies (2008)
* The River of Smoke (2011)
* The Flood of Fire (2015)
Non-fiction
* Imaginary Homelands (1991)
* The God of Small Things: A Novel of Social and Political Change in Modern India (1997)
* The Glass Palace: A Novel of India (2000)
* The Inheritance of Loss (2006)
* The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)