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Most of these first editions also include bibliographies of reviews and essays.

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! Title
! Abbr.<ref>Most from {{harvtxt|Lennon|2008a|pp=518–519}}.</ref>
! Publication Info
! Year
! Type
! Entry
|-
| ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''
| ''NAD''
| New York: Rinehart
| 1948
| novel
| [[48.2]]
|-
| ''[[Barbary Shore]]''
| ''BS''
| New York: Rinehart
| 1951
| novel
| [[51.1]]
|-
| ''[[The Deer Park]]''
| ''DP''
| New York: Putnam
| 1955
| novel
| [[55.4]]
|-
| ''[[The White Negro|The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster]]''
| ''WN''
| San Francisco: City Lights Books
| 1959<ref>This date is often listed as 1957 or 1958 (e.g. {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|p=1}} and {{harvtxt|Lennon|1986|p=219}} list 1957), but as {{harvtxt|Lennon|Lennon|2018|p=29}} explain, the City Lights publication is followed by the 1958 "Reflections on Hipsterism", so earlier than 1959 is unlikely.</ref>
| essay
| [[59.8a]]
|-
| ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''
| ''AFM''
| New York: Putnam
| 1959
| miscellany
| [[59.13]]
|-
| ''[[Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)]]''
| ''DFL''
| New York: Putnam
| 1962
| poetry
| [[62.3]]
|-
| ''[[The Presidential Papers]]''
| ''PP''
| New York: Putnam
| 1963
| miscellany
| [[63.37]]
|-
| ''[[An American Dream]]''
| ''AAD''
| New York: Dial
| 1965
| novel
| [[65.7]]
|-
| ''[[Cannibals and Christians]]''
| ''CAC''
| New York: Dial
| 1966
| miscellany
| [[66.11]]
|-
| ''[[The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer]]''
| ''SFNM''<ref>Abbreviated ''SF'' in {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|p=4, passim}}.</ref>
| New York: Dell
| 1967
| short story collection
| [[67.11]]
|-
| ''[[The Deer Park: A Play]]''
| 
| New York: Dial
| 1967
| play
| [[67.13]]
|-
| ''[[Why Are We in Vietnam?]]''
| ''WWVN''<ref>According to {{harvtxt|Lennon|2008a}}, sometimes abbreviated as ''WVN''.</ref>
| New York: Putnam
| 1967
| novel
| [[67.15]]
|-
| ''[[The Bullfight|The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer]]''
| ''BF''
| New York: Macmillan
| 1967
| essay
| [[67.20]]
|-
| ''[[The Armies of the Night|The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History]]''
| ''AON''
| New York: New American Library
| 1968
| nonfiction narrative
| [[68.8]]
|-
| ''[[The Idol and the Octopus|The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations]]''
| ''IO''
| New York: Dell
| 1968
| miscellany
| [[68.11]]
|-
| ''[[Miami and the Siege of Chicago|Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968]]''
| ''MSC''
| New York: New American Library
| 1968
| nonfiction narrative
| [[68.25]]
|-
| ''[[Of a Fire on the Moon]]''
| ''OFM''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1971
| nonfiction narrative
| [[71.1]]
|- 
| ''[[King of the Hill|King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century]]''
| ''KH''
| New York: New American Library
| 1971
| nonfiction narrative
| [[71.15]]
|- 
| ''[[Prisoner of Sex]]''
| ''POS''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1971
| essay
| [[71.20]]
|- 
| ''[[Maidstone: A Mystery]]''
| ''MM''
| New York: New American Library
| 1971
| screenplay
| [[71.28]]
|- 
| ''[[The Long Patrol|The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer]]''
| ''LP''
| New York: World
| 1971
| collection
| [[71.29]]
|- 
| ''[[Existential Errands]]''
| ''EE''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1972
| miscellany
| [[72.7]]
|- 
| ''[[St. George and the Godfather]]''
| ''SGG''
| New York: New American Library
| 1972
| nonfiction narrative
| [[72.17]]
|- 
| ''[[Marilyn: A Biography|Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers]]''
| ''MAR''
| New York: Grosset & Dunlap
| 1973
| biography
| [[73.30]]
|- 
| ''[[The Faith of Graffiti]]''
| ''FOG''
| New York: Praeger
| 1974
| essay
| [[74.9]]
|- 
| ''[[The Fight]]''
| ''FIG''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1975
| nonfiction narrative
| [[75.12]]
|- 
| ''[[Some Honorable Men|Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972]]''
| ''SHM''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1976
| anthology
| [[76.5]]
|- 
| ''[[Genius and Lust|Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller]]''
| ''GAL''
| New York: Grove
| 1976
| essay
| [[76.12]]
|- 
| ''[[A Transit to Narcissus]]''
| ''TTN''
| New York: Howard Fertig
| 1978
| novel
| [[78.2]]
|- 
| ''[[The Executioner's Song]]''
| ''ES''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1979
| nonfiction narrative
| [[79.14]]
|- 
| ''[[Of Women and Their Elegance]]''
| ''OWE''
| New York: Simon & Schuster
| 1980
| novel
| [[80.15]]
|- 
| ''[[Pieces and Pontifications]]''
| ''PAP''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1982
| miscellany
| [[82.16]]
|- 
| ''[[Ancient Evenings]]''
| ''AE''
| Boston: Little, Brown
| 1983
| novel
| [[83.18]]
|- 
| ''[[Tough Guys Don't Dance]]''
| ''TGD''
| New York: Random House
| 1984
| novel
| [[84.17]]
|- 
| ''[[Conversations with Norman Mailer]]''
| ''CNM''
| Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
| 1988
| collection
| [[88.6]]
|- 
| ''[[Harlot's Ghost]]''
| ''HG''
| New York: Random House
| 1991
| novel
| [[91.26]]
|- 
| ''[[Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery]]''
| ''OT''
| New York: Random House
| 1995
| nonfiction narrative
| [[95.16]]
|- 
| ''[[Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man|Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography]]''
| ''POP''
| New York: Atlantic Monthly Press
| 1995
| biography
| [[95.38]]
|- 
| ''[[The Gospel According to the Son]]''
| ''GAS''
| New York: Random House
| 1997
| novel
| [[97.13]]
|- 
| ''[[The Time of Our Time]]''
| ''TOOT''<ref>According to {{harvtxt|Lennon|2008a}}, sometimes abbreviated as ''TOT''.</ref>
| New York: Random House
| 1998
| anthology
| [[98.7]]
|- 
| ''[[The Spooky Art|The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing]]''
| ''SA''
| New York: Random House
| 2003
| miscellany
| [[03.7]]
|- 
| ''[[Modest Gifts|Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings]]''
| ''MG''
| New York: Random House
| 2003
| poetry
| [[03.17]]
|- 
| ''[[Why Are We at War?]]''
| ''WWW''
| New York: Random House
| 2003
| essay
| [[03.18]]
|- 
| ''[[Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963-1969]]''
| ''LAD''
| Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press
| 2004
| letters
| [[04.7]]
|- 
| ''[[The Big Empty|The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America]]''
| ''BE''
| New York: Nation Books
| 2006
| conversations
| [[06.2]]
|- 
| ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]''
| ''CIF''
| New York: Random House
| 2007
| novel
| [[07.10]]
|- 
| ''[[On God|On God: An Uncommon Conversation]]''
| ''OG''
| New York: Random House
| 2007
| conversations
| [[07.39]]
|- 
| ''[[Mind of an Outlaw|Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer]]''
| ''MO''
| New York: Random House
| 2013
| collection
| [[13.1]]
|- 
| ''[[The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer]]''
| ''SLNM''
| New York: Random House
| 2014
| letters
| [[14.3]]
|- 
| ''Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s''
| 
| New York: Library of America
| 2018
| collection
| 
|-
| ''Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s''
| 
| New York: Library of America
| 2018
| collection
| 
|}

== Bibliography ==
'''Citations'''
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'''Works Cited'''
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* {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Laura |date=1974 |title=Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography |url= |location=Metuchen, NJ |publisher=Scarecrow |author-link= }}
* {{cite news |last=Barringer |first=Felicity |date=March 1, 1999 |title=Journalism's Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Century's Top Stories |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/01/business/media-journalism-s-greatest-hits-two-lists-of-a-century-s-top-stories.html |work=New York Times |location=Media |access-date=2018-10-05 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |date=2016 |title=A Note on 'The Collision,' Norman Mailer's First Short Story |url=https://mailerreview.org/the-collision-1db0934f518 |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=10–11 |access-date=2017-08-26 |author-link=J. Michael Lennon |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |authormask=1 |date=2008a |title=Abbreviations of Books By and About Norman Mailer |url=https://mailerreview.org/abbreviations-of-books-f2a2ee108b44 |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=518–519 |access-date=2018-10-08 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |editor-mask=1 |date=1988 |title=Conversations with Norman Mailer |url= |location=Jackson and London |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |series=Literary Conversations |author-link= }}
* {{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |authormask=1 |editor-last=Martine |editor-first=James J. |date=1986 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=Contemporary Authors: American Novelists |series=Bibliographical Series |volume=1 |url= |location=Detroit, MI |publisher=Bruccoli Clark |pages=219–260 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |authormask=1 |date=2013 |title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster  |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |authormask=1 |date=2008 |title=[[Norman Mailer's Bestsellers]] |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=270–271 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |authormask=1 |date=2008b |title=Norman Mailer, First Editions |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=515–517 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |authormask=1 |last2=Lennon| first2=Donna Pedro |editor-last=Lucas |editor-first=Gerald R. |date=2018 |title=Norman Mailer: Works and Days |edition=Revised, Expanded |url=http://worksdays.projectmailer.net/ |location=Atlanta, GA |publisher=The Norman Mailer Society |isbn=978-1-7326519-0-6 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |contributor-last=Lucid |contributor-first=Robert |date=1974 |contribution=Introduction |last=Adams |first=Laura |title=Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography |url= |location=Metuchen, NJ |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |pages=xi–xv |author-link= }}
* {{cite book |last=Rollyson |first=Carl |date=1991 |title=The Lives of Norman Mailer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xlbAAAAMAAJ |location=New York |publisher=Paragon House |isbn=1557781931 |ref=harv }}
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