* _A Solitary Woman_ (1983)
* _The Edible Woman_ (1969)
* _Other Women_ (1976)
* _Sarah Versus Life_ (1978)
* _The Whole Heart_ (1982)
* _What We Talk About When We Talk About Love_ (1989)
Short Story Collections
* _Collected Stories_ (1994)
* _Face Cards_ (1993)
* _Jellyfish_ (1979)
* _No Fixed Address_ (1987)
* _The Keewatin Expedition: In Search of the Magnetic North Pole_ (1984)
* _The Stone Diaries: A Novel_ (1995)
* _The Weather Station: A Novel_ (1997)
Non-Fiction
* _Talking It Over_ (1991)
* _The Deborah Sampson Story: A Female Soldier in the American Revolution_ (1977)
* _The Girl's Body Book_ (1992)
* _The Making of a Fiction Writer_ (1997)
Poetry
* _One Long Room: Collected Poems_ (1991)
Children's Books
* _The Great Canadian Baking Book_ (1983)
* _I Have Been Here Before: A Novel_ (1999)
* _In This Land: A Novel_ (2008)
* _The Little Mermaid_ (1994)
* _The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood: A Novel_ (1996)
* _The Red Tent_ (1978)
* _The Sleeping Giant_ (1992)
* _The Witch of Willow's Crossing: A Novel_ (2000)