- Smirt: An Urbane Nightmare (1934)
- Straws and Prayer-Books: A Romance (1935)
- These Restless Heads: A Chronicle (1936)
- Special Delivery: A Fable of the Recent Future (1938)
- Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (1951)
- The Majors and the Minors (1953)
- The Devil's Equations: (Now Proving that the Devil Is a Mathematician) (1958)
Collections
- Straws and Prayer-Books and Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (1951)
- The Cream of the Jest (1957)
- From the Hidden Way: A Treasury of the Brothers Grimm in New Tellings by Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, George Henry Boker, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and Others (1993)
Non-Fiction
- Between Dawn and Sunrise: A Story of the Marne, the Meuse, and the Rhin (1919)
- The Cords of Vanity (autobiographical) (1920)
- Chivalry (essay) (1922)
- Straws and Prayer-Books (essay) (1935)
- The Way of Ecben: New Paths to Happiness and the Attainment of the Absolute (1940)
- Let Me Lie (autobiographical) (1947)
- Quiet, Please (autobiographical) (1952)
- Some of Us: An Essay in Epitaphs (1955)
- The First Gentleman of America: A Biography of President Washington (1962)
Short Stories
- The Line of Love (1921)
- Music from Behind the Moon (1926)
- Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (1932)
- Townsend of Lichfield (1941)
- Hamlet Had an Uncle: More Tales of Jurgen (1948)
- Of This and That: Essays and Articles (1961)
Poems
- From the Hidden Way (1889)
- The Soul of Melicent (1895)