• 1966: Somerset Maugham Award for The Tin Men
• 1975: London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, for Alphabetical Order
• 1976: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, for Donkeys' Years*
• 1980: London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy for Make and Break
• 1982: London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, for Noises Off
• 1982: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, for Noises Off
• 1984: London Evening Standard Award for Best Play, for Benefactors
• 1986: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play of the 1985-86 Season for Benefactors
• 1990: International Emmy Award for First and Last
• 1991: Sunday Express Book of the Year, for A Landing on the Sun
• 1998: Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play, for Copenhagen
• 1998: London Evening Standard Award for Best Play, for Copenhagen
• 2000: Tony Award for Best Play (USA) for Copenhagen
• 2000: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play of the 1999-2000 Season for Copenhagen
• 2002: Whitbread Best Novel Award for Spies (the overall Whitbread Prize went to his wife, Claire Tomalin)
• 2003: Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia Region) for Spies
• 2003: London Evening Standard Award for Best Play, for Democracy
• 2006: St. Louis Literary Award

Novels

• The Tin Men (1965)
• The Russian Interpreter (1966)
• Towards the End of the Morning (1967)
• A Very Private Life (1968)
• Sweet Dreams (1973)
• The Trick of It (1989)
• A Landing on the Sun (1991)
• Now You Know (1993)
• Headlong (1999)
• Spies (2002)

Plays

• The Two of Us, four one-act plays for two actors (1970)

:Black and Silver, Mr. Foot, Chinamen, and The new Quixote

• Alphabetical Order and Donkeys' Years (1977)
• Clouds (1977)
• The Cherry Orchard trans. Chekhov (1978)
• Balmoral (1978)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment trans. Tolstoy (1979)
• Liberty Hall (1980) (revised version of Balmoral)
• Make or Break (1980)
• Noises Off (1982)
• Three Sisters trans. Chekhov (1983, revised 1988)
• Number One (1984) translated from Jean Anouilh's Le Nombril
• Benefactors (1984)
• Wild Honey trans. Chekhov (1984)
• The Seagull trans. Chekhov (1986)
• Uncle Vanya trans. Chekhov (1986)
• Balmoral (1987) (further revised version)
• First and Last (1989)
• Exchange trans. adapted Yuri Trifonov (1990)
• Look Look (1990)
• Sketches and Monologues (1990)
• Jamie on a Flying Visit; and Birthday (1990)
• Look Look (1990)
• Audience (1991)
• Plays: Two, Methuen (1991), (1994) ISBN 9780413660800
• Here (1993)
• La Belle Vivette, a version of Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène (1995)
• Now You Know (1995)
• More Plays than One (1998)
• Copenhagen (1998)
• Plays: Three, Methuen (2000)
• Democracy (2003)
• Afterlife (2008) [1]

Non-fiction

• The Day of the Dog, articles reprinted from The Guardian (1962).
• The Book of Fub, articles reprinted from The Guardian (1963).
• On the Outskirts, articles reprinted from The Observer (1964).
• At Bay in Gear Street, articles reprinted from The Observer (1967).
• The Original Michael Frayn, a collection of the above four, plus nineteen new Observer pieces.
• Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects, articles reprinted from The Guardian (1995).
• Constructions, a volume of philosophy (1974).
• Celia's Secret: An Investigation (US title The Copenhagen Papers ), with David Burke (2000).
• The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of the universe (2006).
• Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre, 1970-2008 (2008), his path into theatre and a collection of the introductions to his plays.
• Travels with a Typewriter (2009), a collection of Frayn's travel pieces from the 1960s and 70s from the Guardian and the Observer.
• My Father's Fortune: A Life (2010), a memoir of Frayn's childhood.