The Year of Henry James: The story of a novel: With other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction

Ways of Seeing

Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991

You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

The Art of Fiction

A Theory of Semiotics

Lives in Writing

The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness & Ethics, Edition 2

The Practice of Writing

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel, Edition 2

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

One-Way Street

Varying Degrees of Success: A Memoir 1992-2020

In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics

Write On: Occasional Essays

The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature and Culture

Exploring J.r.r. Tolkien's "the Hobbit"

Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Edition 3