Screenplays

• Anita and Me (2002)
• Bhaji on the Beach (1993)

Stage

• One of Us (1983)
• The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show (1992)
• Goodness Gracious Me (1999)
• Bombay Dreams (2002)

Radio

• Goodness Gracious Me (1996-98)
• Masala FM (1996)

Television

• Tandoori Nights (1985)
• The Real McCoy (1991)
• My Sister Wife (1994)
• Goodness Gracious Me (1998)
• Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2005)
• Beautiful People (2008)

Novels

• Anita and Me (1996)
• Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999), published in German under the title Sari, Jeans und Chilischoten in 2003

• The One of Us (1983)
• Majdhar (1983)
• The Diary of Adrian Mole (1985)
• A Little Princess (1986)
• Sunday East (1986—87)
• Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
• Serious Money (1987)
• Peer Gynt (1990)
• The Real McCoy (1991)
• Gummed Labels (1992)
• Taggart (1992)
• The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show (1992)
• Sean's Show (1993)
• The Brain Drain (1993)
• Absolutely Fabulous (1994)
• New Best Friend (1994)
• Flight (1995)
• Degrees of Error (1995)
• Band of Gold (1995)
• It's Not Unusual (1995)
• Drop The Dead Donkey (1996)
• A Nice Arrangement (1996)
• Beautiful Thing (1996)
• Marsala FM (1996)
• Crossing The Floor (1996)
• Ruby (1997)
• Sixth Happiness (1997)
• The Book Quiz (1998)
• No Crying He Makes (1998)
• Keeping Mum (1998)
• Legal Affairs (1998)
• The World As We Know It (1999)
• Late Lunch (1999)
• Room 101 (1999)
• The Vagina Monologues (2001)
• Double Income, No Kids Yet (2001)
• Anita and Me (2002)
• QI (2003)
• Bad Girls (2004)
• Bombay Dreams (2004)
• Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2005)
• Murder Investigation Team (2005)
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006)
• Who Do You Think You Are? (2006)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats (2006)
• Rafta Rafta (2006)
• Jekyll (2007)
• Kingdom (2007)
• Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
• The One Show (2008)
• When Were We Funniest? (2008)
• Beautiful People (2008—09)
• Holby City (2009—)
• Minder (2009)
• Horrible Histories(2009)
• Doctor Who: "The Hungry Earth" (2010) and "Cold Blood" (2010)

• Rocío G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139-46.

• Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce "Invisible Cities: Being and Creativity in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me and Ben Okri’s Astonishing the Gods", in Philip Laplace and Éric Tabuteau (eds), Cities on the Margin/ On the Margin of Cities: Representations of Urban Space in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2003: 113—30.

• Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637-59.