Write On: Occasional Essays

Ways of Seeing

Consciousness and the Novel

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Varying Degrees of Success: A Memoir 1992-2020

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

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

A Theory of Semiotics

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

Remote Control

Jane Austen: Emma

The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images.

Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991

About Writing: 7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

The Practice of Writing

Genius After Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan

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

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Edition 3

The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change

Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction