Essays and non-fiction
Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution (1982)
Vidal in Venice (1985)
Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
At Home (1988)
A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
United States: essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6
Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0
Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-810-95049-9
Novels
(*Part of the Narratives of Empire series.*)
Williwaw (1946; University Of Chicago Press, 2003) ISBN 0-226-85585-6
In a Yellow Wood (1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948; Vintage 2003) 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
The Judgment of Paris (1952) ISBN 0-345-33458-2
Messiah (1954; Penguin Classics 1998) ISBN 0-14-118039-0
A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)
Julian (1964; Vintage 2003) ISBN 0-375-72706-X
*Washington, D.C. (1967; Vintage 2000) ISBN 0-316-90257-8*
Myra Breckinridge (1968; Penguin Classics with Myron, 1997) ISBN 1125979488
Two Sisters (1970) ISBN 0-434-82958-7
*Burr (1973; Vintage 2000) ISBN 0-375-70873-1*
Myron (1974; Penguin Classics with Myra Breckinridge, 1997) ISBN 0-586-04300-4
*1876 (1976) ISBN 0-375-70872-3*
Kalki (1978) ISBN 0-14-118037-4
Creation (1981; Vintage 2002) ISBN 0-349-10475-1
Duluth (1983) ISBN 0-394-52738-0
*Lincoln (1984; Vintage 2000) ISBN 0-375-70876-6*
*Empire (1987) ISBN 0-375-70874-X*
*Hollywood (1990; Vintage 2000) 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) ISBN 978-0786718108
Screenplays
Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
The Catered Affair (1956)
I Accuse! (1958)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Best Man (1964)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
Caligula (1979)
Dress Gray (1986)
The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Dimenticare Palermo (1989)
Plays
Visit to a Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0-8222-1211-0
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0
On the March to the Sea (2005)
Novels under pseudonyms
A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as Katherine Everard
Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
Death in the Fifth Position (1952; Vintage/Black Lizard 2011) as Edgar Box
Death Before Bedtime (1953; Vintage/Black Lizard 2011) as Edgar Box
Death Likes It Hot (1954; Vintage/Black Lizard 2011) as Edgar Box
Principal source: Wikipedia, February 2011.
Image: Arnold Newman. Gore Vidal, NY, 1947, 1947. The Gore Vidal Papers / Houghton Library, Harvard University. (March 2011 update: Image available as JPEG here.)
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