• 1982: Little, Big received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
• 1990: Great Work of Time received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
• 1992: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
• 1997: Gone received the Locus Award for Best Short Story.
• 2003: The Translator received the Italian Premio Flaiano.
• 2006: World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Novels

• The Deep, Doubleday (1975)
• Beasts, Doubleday (1976)
• Engine Summer, Doubleday (1979) -- BSFA and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 1980
• Little, Big, Bantam (1981) -- Nebula nominee, 1981; WFA winner, 1982; BSFA, Hugo, and Locus Awards nominee, 1982
• Ægypt (first novel in the Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (1987); revised and republished 2007 under intended original title, The Solitudes -- WFA and Clarke Awards nominee, 1988
• Love & Sleep (second novel in the Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (1994) -- WFA nominee, 1995
• Dæmonomania (third novel in the Ægypt tetralogy), Bantam (2000)
• The Translator, William Morrow (2002)
• Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, William Morrow (2005)
• Endless Things (fourth and final novel in the Ægypt tetralogy), Small Beer Press (2007) -- Locus Award nominee, 2008
• Four Freedoms, William Morrow (2009)

Short fiction

• "Antiquities" (1977)
• "Where Spirits Gat Them Home" (1978, later revised as "Her Bounty to the Dead")
• "The Single Excursion of Caspar Last" (1979, later incorporated into "Great Work of Time")
• "The Reason for the Visit" (1980)
• "The Green Child" (1981)
• "Novelty" (1983)
• "Snow" (1985)
• "The Nightingale Sings at Night" (1989)
• "Great Work of Time" (novella, originally published in Novelty, 1989), Bantam (1991)
• "In Blue" (1989)
• "Missolonghi 1824" (1990)
• "Exogamy" (1993)
• "Gone" (1996)
• "Lost and Abandoned" (1997)
• "An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings" (2000, published as an original chapbook by DreamHaven, illustrated by Charles Vess)
• "The War Between the Objects and the Subjects" (2002)
• "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines" (novella, 2002, in Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, edited by Peter Straub)
• "Little Yeses, Little Nos" (2005)
• "Conversation Hearts" (2008; published as a chapbook by Subterranean Press)

Collections

• Novelty Bantam (1989); collects "The Nightingale Sings At Night", "Great Work of Time", "In Blue" and the previously published "Novelty".
• Antiquities: Seven Stories, Incunabula (1993); includes all of his stories to that point which were not included in Novelty
• Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction, Perennial (2004); collects all of his short fiction up to that point, including "Great Work of Time", except "The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines".

Omnibuses

• Beasts/Engine Summer/Little Big, QPBC (1991)
• Three Novels (1994; later published as Otherwise: Three Novels by John Crowley. It includes The Deep, Beasts, Engine Summer).

Screenplays

• The World of Tomorrow (1984)
• Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body (1990, with Laurie Block)

Nonfiction

• In Other Words, Subterranean Press (2007)

Audio books

• Ægypt, Blackstone Audiobooks (2007; unabridged reading of The Solitudes by the author.)

Critical work concerning

• Snake's-Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley, edited by Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi, Cosmos (Canton, OH), 2003.