This is a list of the literary works by British writer and historian Jan Morris (1926–2020).

Non-fiction

Travel

  • Coast to Coast (published in the US as As I Saw the USA; 1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
  • Sultan in Oman (1957; new edition by Eland in 2008)
  • The Market of Seleukia (1957)
  • South African Winter (1958)
  • The Hashemite Kings (1959)
  • Venice (1960: winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
  • The Presence of Spain (1964)
  • Spain (1964)
  • Oxford (1965)
  • The Great Port: A Passage through New York (1969)
  • The Venetian Empire (1980)
  • A Venetian Bestiary (1982)
  • The Matter of Wales (1984)
  • Spain (1988)
  • Hong Kong (1988)
  • Sydney (1992)
  • Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
  • A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 (2003)
  • Contact! A Book of Encounters (2010)

Essays

  • The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963)
  • The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (1963)
  • Cities (1963)
  • Places (1972)
  • Travels (1976)
  • Destinations (1980)
  • Wales; The First Place (1982, reprinted 1998)
  • Journeys (1984)
  • Among the Cities (1985)
  • Locations (1992)
  • O Canada! (1992)
  • Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)

History

  • The Pax Britannica Trilogy
    • Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (1973). Book 1. Covering the period 1837 to 1897
    • Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968). Book 2.
    • Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978). Book 3. Covering the period 1897 to 1965
  • The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannica (1982)
  • Stones of Empire: Buildings of the Raj (1983) (by Jan Morris with photographs by Simon Winchester)
  • Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (2018)

Biography

  • Fisher's Face (1995)

Memoirs

  • Conundrum, UK Faber and Faber, US: Harcourt Brace (1974) (personal narrative of Jan Morris's gender transition)
  • Wales, The First Place (1982)
  • Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)
  • "Herstory" (1999)
  • Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
  • A Writer's House in Wales (2002)
  • In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (2018)
  • Thinking Again (2020)

Other

  • Coronation Everest (1958)
  • Ciao, Carpaccio! (2014)

Fiction

Novels

Short stories

  • The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories (1961)

As editor

  • The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
  • Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice. Ed. Jan Morris. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1989.

Miscellaneous

  • The World Bank. A Prospect (1963)
  • Manhattan '45 (hardcover 1987, paperback 1998)
  • Over Europe (Weldon Owen, 1991) – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project
  • Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997) – published in 2006 as Europe – An Intimate Journey
  • The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
  • Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2001)
  • Our First Leader
  • Thrilling Cities written by Ian Fleming. Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition published by Ian Fleming Publications.
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