Fiction

• The Ink Truck. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

The Albany Cycle

• Legs. New York: Penguin Books, 1975.
• Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. New York: Viking Press, 1978.
• Ironweed. New York: Viking Press, 1983.
• Quinn's Book. New York: Viking Press, 1988.
• Very Old Bones. New York: Viking Press, 1992.
• The Flaming Corsage. New York: Viking Press, 1996.
• Roscoe. New York: Viking Press, 2002.

Nonfiction

• O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels. New York: Viking Press, 1983.
• The Making of Ironweed. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.
• Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. New York: Viking Press, 1993.

Screenplays

• The Cotton Club. Co-authored with Francis Ford Coppola. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
• Ironweed. Tri-Star, 1987.

Plays

• Grand View. Premiered at Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY, 1996.
• In the System. HumaniTech* Short Play Project Premiere, University at Albany, March 2003.

Children's books

• Charlie Malarkey and the Belly Button Machine (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986.
• Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose (co-authored with Brendan Kennedy). New York: Viking Children's Books, 1994.

Criticism

• Flanagan, Thomas. O Albany!. New York Review of Books. April 25, 2002
• Giamo, Benedict F. The Homeless of Ironweed: Blossoms on the Crag. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997.
• Gillespie, Michael Patrick. Reading William Kennedy. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• Lynch, Vivian Valvano. Portraits of Artists: Warriors in the Novels of William Kennedy. Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1999.
• Mallon, Thomas. William Kennedy's Greatest Game. The Atlantic Monthly. February 2002.
• Seshachari, Neila C. Courtesans, Stars, Wives, $ Vixens: The Many Faces of Female Power in Kennedy's Novels, AWP Conference, Albany, NY. April 17, 1999.
• Marowski, Daniel G. and Matur, Roger, editors. "William Kennedy." Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 53, Detroit: Gale Research, 1989, pp. 189-201.
• Michener, Christian. From Then into Now: William Kennedy's Albany Novels. University of Scranton Press, 1998.
• Reilly, Edward C. Twayne's United States Authors Series: William Kennedy. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.
• Van Dover, J. K. Understanding William Kennedy. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
• Seshachari, Neila C., editor. Conversations with William Kennedy. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.