Williwaw (1946) ISBN 0-226-85585-6

　　In a Yellow Wood (1947)

　　《城市与梁柱》（The City and the Pillar 1948） ISBN 1-4000-3037-4

　　The Season of Comfort (1949) ISBN 0-233-98971-4

　　A Search for the King (1950) ISBN 0-345-25455-4

　　Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)

　　The Judgment of Paris (1952) ISBN 0-345-33458-2

　　Messiah (1954) ISBN 0-14-118039-0

　　A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)

　　Julian (1964) ISBN 0-375-72706-X

　　Washington, D.C. (1967) ISBN 0-316-90257-8

　　Myra Breckinridge (1968) ISBN 1125979488

　　Two Sisters (1970) ISBN 0-434-82958-7

　　Burr (1973) ISBN 0-375-70873-1

　　Myron (1974) ISBN 0-586-04300-4

　　1876 (1976) ISBN 0-375-70872-3

　　Kalki (1978) ISBN 0-14-118037-4

　　Creation (1981) ISBN 0-349-10475-1

　　Duluth (1983) ISBN 0-394-52738-0

　　Lincoln (1984) ISBN 0-375-70876-6

　　Empire (1987) ISBN 0-375-70874-X

　　Hollywood (1990) ISBN 0-375-70875-8

　　Live from Golgotha: the Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992) ISBN 0-14-023119-6

　　The Smithsonian Institution (1998) ISBN 0-375-50121-5

　　The Golden Age (2000) ISBN 0-375-72481-8

　　Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story – Clouds and Eclipses – added)