• The Naked and the Dead (1948, 2000)
  Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer. Written in fascinating detail, the story follows a platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.  Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.

• The Deer Park (1955)

• The White Negro (1957)

• Advertisements for Myself (1959)

• The Presidential Papers (1963)

• An American Dream (1965)

• Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) -- Winner The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction

• The Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel as Historyt (1968) – Winner 1969 Pulitzer Prize

• The Idol and the Octopus (1968)

• Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968)

• Of a Fire on the Moon (1970)

• The Prisoner of Sex (1971)

• King of the Hill (1971)

• The Long Patrol: 25 years of writing from the work of Norman Mailer (1971)

• St. George and the Godfather (1972)
  See also George McGovern.

• Existential Errands (1972)

• Marilyn, a Biography (1973)

• Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller  (1976)

• Some Honorable Men (1976)

• The Executioner's Song (1979, 1998) -- Winner 1980 Pulitzer Prize
  In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.
  
  Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story--and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.

• Of Women and Their Elegance (1980)

• Pieces and Pontifications (1982)

• The Essential Mailer (1982)

• Ancient Evenings (1984)

• Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984)
  Movie 1987 (DVD  VHS) Written And Directed By Norman Mailer, Starring Ryan O'neal, Isabella Rosselini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser. A Parody Of The Chandler's Style And Film Noir.

• Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100 (1985)

• Harlot's Ghost (1991)

• Pablo and Fernande (1994)

• Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (1995)

• Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man (1995)

• The Gospel According to the Son (1997)

• The Time of Our Time (1998)

• The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (2003)
  In The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer’s craft. Mailer explores, among other topics, the use of first person versus third person, the pressing need for discipline, the pitfalls of early success, and the dire matter of coping with bad reviews. While The Spooky Art offers a fascinating preview of what can lie in wait for the student and fledgling writer, the book also has a great deal to say to more advanced writers on the contrary demands of plot and character, the demon writer’s block, and the curious ins-and-outs of publishing. Throughout, Mailer ties in examples from his own career, and reflects on the works of his fellow writers, living and dead -- Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Joan Didion, John Updike,  Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, William Styron, and a host of others. In The Spooky Art, Mailer captures the unique untold suffering and exhilaration of the novelist’s daily life and, while plotting a clear path for other writers to follow, maintains reverence for the underlying mystery and power of the art.

• On God: Un Uncommon Conversation (2007) with Michael Lennon
  A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest , revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His conversations with his friend and literary executor, Michael Lennon, show this writer at his most direct, provocative, and challenging. “I think,” writes Mailer, “that piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought.”
  
  In moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues conducted over three years but whose topics he has considered for decades, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents instead a view of our world as one created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe, with whom war is waged for the souls of humans. In turn, we have been given freedom–indeed responsibility–to choose our own paths. Mailer trusts that our individual behavior–always a complex mix of good and evil–will be rewarded or punished with a reincarnation that fits the sum of our lives.
  
  Mailer weighs the possibilities of “intelligent design” at the same time avowing that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten Commandments–because adultery, he avers, may be a lesser evil than others suffered in a bad marriage–and he holds that technology was the Devil’s most brilliant creation.
  
  In short, Mailer is original and unpredictable in this inspiring verbal journey, a unique vision of the world in which “God needs us as much as we need God.”
  
  From The Naked and the Dead  to The Executioner’s Song and beyond, Mailer’s major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now, in this small yet important book, Mailer, in a modest, well-spoken style, gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.

• The Castle in the Forest: A Novel (2007)
  No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.
  
  The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.
  
  A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.

Other:

• Smiling through the Apocalypse: Esquire's History of the Sixties (1970) by Harold Hayes
  Includes contributions by Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, William F. Buckley Jr., William Burroughs, and William Styron.

• The Modern Short Story in the Making (1964)
  With selections by Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, Katherine Anne Porter, Luigi Pirnadello, Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Saroyan, et al.

See also:

• Into the Mirror (2002) by Lawrence Schiller
  Based on an investigation by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller and dramatized for TV by Norman Mailer

• Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America (1987) by Bruce Vanwyngarden and Peter O. Whitmer
  Includes information on Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Tom Robbins, and William Burroughs