| Title | Abbr.[b] | Year | Type | Notes |
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| The Naked and the Dead | NAD | 1948 | novel | spent 62 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no.J. Michael Lennon - Wikipedia1; received a New York Newspaper Guild's "Page One Award"; chosen as one of the four best books of 1948 by Newsweek; original manuscript housed at Yale University |
| Barbary Shore | BS | 1951 | novel | spent 3 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no. 3 |
| The Deer Park | DP | 1955 | novel | spent 15 weeks on the bestseller list, achieving no.
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| The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster | WN | 1959[c] | essay | first published in Dissent 4, Summer 1957 |
| Advertisements for Myself | AFM | 1959 | miscellany | original working title: The Hip and the Square: a Miscellany |
| Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) | DFL | 1962 | poetry |
| The Presidential Papers | PP | 1963 | miscellany |
| An American Dream | AAD | 1965 | novel | spent 6 weeks on the be Norman Mailer bibliography - Wikipedia NIZET
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