- The Dragon Hoard (1971)
- Animal Castle (1972)
- Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises (1972)
- The Birthgrave Trilogy
- The Birthgrave (1975)
- Shadowfire (1978)
- Quest for the White Witch (1978)
- Companions on the Road (1975)
- The Four-BEE Series
- Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
- Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
- The Novels of Vis
- The Storm Lord (1976)
- Anackire (1983)
- The White Serpent (1988)
- The Winter Players (1976)
- Volkhavaar (1977)
- East of Midnight (1977)
- The Castle of Dark (1978)
- Tales From The Flat Earth
- Night's Master (1978)
- Death's Master (1979)
- Delusion's Master (1981)
- Delirium's Mistress (1986)
- Night's Sorceries (1986)
- Electric Forest (1979)
- Shon the Taken (1979)
- Sabella, or the Blood Stone (1980)
- Kill the Dead (1980)
- Day by Night (1980)
- Lycanthia (1981)
- The S.I.L.V.E.R. Series
- The Silver Metal Lover (1981)
- Metallic Love (2005)
- Unsilent Night (1981)
- Prince on a White Horse (1982)
- Cyrion (1982)
- Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
- Sung in Shadow (1983)
- Tamastara (1984)
- Night Visions (1984)
- The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (1985)
- Days of Grass (1985)
- Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee (1986)
- Dark Castle, White Horse (1986)
- The Secret Books of Paradys
- The Book of the Damned (1988)
- The Book of the Beast (1988)
- The Book of the Dead (1991)
- The Book of the Mad (1993)
- The Secret Books of Paradys (2007)
- Madame Two Swords (1988)
- Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women through Space and Time (1989)
- Forests of The Night (1989)
- A Heroine of the World (1989)
- The Blood of Roses (1990)
- The Unicorn Series
- Black Unicorn (1991)
- Gold Unicorn (1994)
- Red Unicorn (1997)
- The Blood Opera Sequence
- Dark Dance (1992)
- Personal Darkness (1993)
- Darkness, I (1994)
- Heart-Beast (1992)
- Elephantasm (1993)
- Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys Into Shadow (1993)
- Eva Fairdeath (1994)
- Vivia (1995)
- Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
- When the Lights Go Out (1996)
- Louisa the Poisoner (1996)
- The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
- The Secret Books of Venus
- Faces Under Water (1998)
- Saint Fire (1999)
- A Bed of Earth (2002)
- Venus Preserved (2003)
- The Claidi Journals
- Law of the Wolf Tower (1998)
- Wolf Star Rise (2000)
- Queen of the Wolves (2001)
- Wolf Wing (2002)
- The Claidi Journals (2003)
- Islands in the Sky (1999)
- White As Snow (2000)
- Mortal Suns (2003)
- 34 (2004) (as Esther Garber)
- Fatal Women (2004) (as Esther Garber)
- The Lionwolf Series
- Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
- Here In Cold Hell (2005)
- No Flame but Mine (2007)
- Death of the Day (2004)
- L'Amber (2006)
- Indigara (2007)