* Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
* Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985)
* The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1987)
* I Am a Strange Loop (2007)
* Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (2013)
Fiction books
* Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (1997)
Children's books
* Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (1995)
* Lullaby: Songs of My Mother (2004)
Edited collections
* The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981)
* Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985)
* The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1987)
* I Am a Strange Loop (2007)
Contributions to other works
* "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" in The Norton Anthology of American Literature (1985)
* "The Mind's I" in The Norton Anthology of American Literature (1994)
* "Metamagical Themas" in The Norton Anthology of American Literature (2000)
* "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" in The MIT Press Reader (2003)
* "Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking" in The Best American Science and Nature Writing (2014)