Biography

• The Life and Times of Chaucer (1977) with J. Wolf, Illustrator

Children

• Dragon, Dragon, and Other Tales (1975) with Charles Shields, Illustrator
  Four fairy tales featuring a dragon, a giant, a cunning mule, and a little chimney-girl.

• Gudgekin, the Thistle Girl, and Other Tales (1976) with Michael Sporn, Illustrator

• The King of the Hummingbirds, and Other Tales (1977) with Michael Sporn, Illustrator

• A Child's Bestiary (1977)

• In the Suicide Mountains (1977) Joe Servello, Illustrator
  Unable to find a place for themselves in society, a young woman, a dwarf, and a prince journey to the mountains intent on doing away with themselves.

Criticism

• Le Morte Darthur Cliff Notes (1967)

• The Gawain-Poet Cliff Notes (1967)
  Notes on Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with brief commentary on Purity and Patience

• The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle (1974)

• The Construction of Christian Poetry in Old English (1975)

• The Poetry of Chaucer (1977)

• On Moral Fiction (1978)

Drama

• Rumpelstiltskin (1978)
  Opera Libretti

• Frankenstein (1979)
  Opera Libretti

• William Wilson (1979)
  Opera Libretti

• The Temptation Game (1980)
  Radio play

• Death and the Maiden (1981)
  Radio play

Essays & Reviews

• On Writers & Writing (1994) with Stewart O'Nan, ed.

Fiction

• The Old Men (1959)
  Thesis

• Ressurection (1966)

• Wreckage of Agathon (1970)

• Grendel (1971) with Emil Antonucci, Illustrator
  Movie (Grendel Grendel Grendel, 1981) VHS

• Sunlight Dialogues (1972) with John Napper, Illustrator

• Nickel Mountain: A Pastoral Novel (1973) with Thomas O'Donohue, Illustrator
  Movie (1984) VHS

• The King's Indian: Stories and Tales (1974) with Herbert L. Fink, Illustrator

• October Light (1976) with Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese, Illustrators

• Vlemk the Box-Painter (1979)

• Freddy's Book (1980)

• The Art of Living and Other Stories (1981)

• Mickelsson's Ghosts (1982)

• Stillness and Shadows (1986)

On Writing

• John Gardner: An Interview (1980) with Joyce Renwick

• On Becoming a Novelist (1983)

• The Art of Fiction (1983)

• Conversations With John Gardner (1990) with Allan Chavkin, ed.

• On Writers & Writing (1994)

• Lies! Lies! Lies (1999)
  Biography and autobiography. As a student at DePauw University in 1952, John Gardner kept a notebook to which he gave the seemingly playful title LIES! LIES! LIES!. "With the journal shaping his discipline, Gardner as a teacher is his own best student. He writes character sketches, scenes, poems, parodies, polemics arguing with critics and teachers--then tests and questions his own words (he calls the journal LIES! LIES! LIES! To remind himself that his opinions are provisional). Again and again he formulates strategies that he will incarnate in novels...The journal, then, gives its writer a chance to discover what works and what doesn't"--Thomas Gavin from the Introduction. The journal is reproduced here in a facsimile edition, preserving the writer's clear and fastidious penmanship, followed by a printed transcription of the text.

Poetry

• Jason and Medeia (1973)

• Poems (1978)

Translations

• Complete Works of the Gawain Poet  (1965)

• The Alliterative Morte Arthure (1971)
  The Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Owl and the Nightingale, and five other Middle English poems in a modernized version

• Tengu Child: Stories by Kikuo Itaya (1983), translated by John Gardner and Nobuko Tsukui

• Gilgamesh (1984), translated by John Gardner and John Maier

See also:

• The Forms of Fiction (1962) with commentaries by John Gardner and Lennis Dunlap

• MSS: A Retrospective (1981) John Gardner and L.M. Rosenberg, eds.

• The Best American Short Stories 1982  (1982) with Shannon Ravenel, ed.

• John Gardner (2004) by Barry Silesky