• The Tiger's Daughter (1971)
• Wife (1975)
• Jasmine (1989)
• The Holder of the World (1993)
• Leave It to Me (1997)
• Desirable Daughters (2002)
• The Tree Bride (2004)

Short story collections

• Darkness (1985)
• The Middleman and Other Stories (1988)
• A Father

Memoir

• Days and Nights in Calcutta (1977, with Clark Blaise)

Non-fiction

• The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (1987, with Clark Blaise)
• Political Culture and Leadership in India (1991)
• Regionalism in Indian Perspective (1992)

• 1988: National Book Critics Circle Award (The Middleman and Other Stories).

• Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. "Bharati Mukherjee." In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006: 1581-1582.
• Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake (ed.). "Nostalgia by Bharati Mukherjee." The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 28-40.
• Kerns-Rustomji, Roshni. "Bharati Mukherjee." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th edition, Vol. E. Paul Lauter and Richard Yarborough (eds.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006: 2693-2694.
• New, W. H., ed. "Bharati Mukerjee." In Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 763-764.
• Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Bharati Mukherjee:The Management of Grief." Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005:91-108.

Biographies

• Voices from the Gaps
• Emory
• BBC World Service
• Edwardsly
• AMSAW
• Biography by Jaideep

Interviews

• PBS Interview with Bill Moyers
• Jouvert Interview
• Beatrice Interview 1997
• Powells Interview (April 2002)
• A conversation with Bharati Mukherjee (February 2003)

Misc.

• BBC World Service
• A Declaration of Independence
• Further links