Novels:

• THE COUNTRY GIRLS (1960)
• THE LONELY GIRL (1962) later published as GIRL WITH GREEN EYES
• GIRLS IN THEIR MARRIED BLISS (1964)
• THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY, collected with new epilogue (1987)
• AUGUST IS A WICKED MONTH (1965)
• CASUALTIES OF PEACE (1966)
• A PAGAN PLACE (1970)
• ZEE & CO. (1971)
• NIGHT (1972)
• JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YOU (1977)
• THE HIGH ROAD (1988)
• TIME AND TIDE (1992)
• HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION (1994)
• DOWN BY THE RIVER (1996)
• WILD DECEMBERS (1999)
• IN THE FOREST (2002)
• THE LIGHT OF EVENING (2006)
• THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS (2016)

Short Story Collections:

• The Love Object and Other Stories (1968)
• A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974)
• Mrs. Rhinehardt and Other Stories (1978)
• Some Irish Loving (1979)
• Returning (1982)
• A Fanatic Heart (1985)
• Lantern Slides (1990)
• Saints and Sinners (2011)
• The Love Object: Selected Stories (2013)

Nonfiction:

• MOTHER IRELAND (1976)
• JAMES JOYCE (1999)
• BYRON IN LOVE (2009)
• COUNTRY GIRL: A Memoir (2012)