Editing Doris Lessing (section)

==Publications==
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===Novels===
* ''[[The Grass Is Singing]]'' (1950) (filmed as ''[[Killing Heat]]'' (1981))
* ''Retreat to Innocence'' (1956)
* ''[[The Golden Notebook]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Briefing for a Descent into Hell]]'' (1971)
* ''The Summer Before the Dark'' (1973)
* ''[[The Memoirs of a Survivor]]'' (1974)
* ''The Diary of a Good Neighbour'' (as Jane Somers, 1983)
* ''If the Old Could...'' (as Jane Somers, 1984)
* ''[[The Good Terrorist]] ''(1985)
* ''[[The Fifth Child]]'' (1988)
* ''Love, Again'' (1996)
* ''Mara and Dann'' (1999)
* ''[[Ben, in the World]]'' (2000)&nbsp;– sequel to ''The Fifth Child''
* ''[[The Sweetest Dream]]'' (2001)
* ''The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog'' (2005)&nbsp;– the sequel to ''Mara and Dann''
* ''[[The Cleft]]'' (2007)
;[[Children of Violence]] series (1952–1969)
* ''[[Martha Quest]]'' (1952)
* ''[[A Proper Marriage]]'' (1954)
* ''[[A Ripple from the Storm]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Landlocked (novel)|Landlocked]]'' (1965)
* ''[[The Four-Gated City]]'' (1969)
;The [[Canopus in Argos|Canopus in Argos: Archives]] series (1979–1983)
* ''[[Shikasta]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five]]'' (1980)
* ''[[The Sirian Experiments]]'' (1980)
* ''[[The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (novel)|The Making of the Representative for Planet 8]]'' (1982)
* ''[[The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire]]'' (1983)

===Opera libretti===
* ''[[The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (opera)|The Making of the Representative for Planet 8]]'' (music by [[Philip Glass]], 1986)
* ''The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five'' (music by Philip Glass, 1997)

===Comics===
* ''Playing the Game'' ([[graphic novel]] illustrated by [[Charlie Adlard]], 1995)

===Drama===
* ''Each His Own Wilderness'' (three plays, 1959)
* ''Play with a Tiger'' (1962)

===Poetry collections===
* ''Fourteen Poems'' (1959)
* ''The Wolf People&nbsp;– INPOPA Anthology 2002'' (poems by Lessing, Robert Twigger and T.H. Benson, 2002)
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===Short story collections===
* ''This Was the Old Chief's Country'' (1951)
* ''Five Short Novels'' (1953)
* ''[[Through the Tunnel]]'' (1955)<ref>Lessing, Doris. "Through the Tunnel." The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 1955, p. 67.</ref>
* ''The Habit of Loving'' (1957)
* ''A Man and Two Women'' (1963)
* ''African Stories'' (1964)
* ''Winter in July'' (1966)
* ''The Black Madonna'' (1966)
* ''The Story of a Non-Marrying Man'' (1972)
* ''This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Vol. 1'' (1973)
* ''The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Vol. 2'' (1973)
* ''To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, Vol. 1'' (1978)
* ''The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories, Vol. 2'' (1978)
*  ''Stories'' (1978)
* ''London Observed: Stories and Sketches'' (1992)
* ''The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches'' (1992)
* ''Spies I Have Known'' (1995)
* ''The Pit'' (1996)
* ''[[The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels]]'' (2003) (filmed as [[Two Mothers (2013 film)|Two Mothers]])
; Cat Tales
* ''Particularly Cats'' (stories and nonfiction, 1967)
* ''Particularly Cats and Rufus the Survivor'' (stories and nonfiction, 1993)
* ''The Old Age of El Magnifico'' (stories and nonfiction, 2000)
* ''On Cats'' (2002)&nbsp;– omnibus edition containing the above three books

===Autobiography and memoirs===
* ''Going Home'' (memoir, 1957)
* ''African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe'' (memoir, 1992)
* ''[[Under My Skin (autobiography)|Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949]]'' (1994)
* ''Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949 to 1962'' (1997)
* ''[[Alfred and Emily]]'' (memoir/fiction hybrid, 2008)

===Other non-fiction===
* ''In Pursuit of the English'' (1960)
* ''[[Prisons We Choose to Live Inside]]'' (essays, 1987)
* ''The Wind Blows Away Our Words'' (1987)
* ''A Small Personal Voice'' (essays, 1994)
* ''Conversations'' (interviews, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll, 1994)
* ''Putting the Questions Differently'' (interviews, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll, 1996)
* ''[[Time Bites: Views and Reviews]]'' (essays, 2004)
* ''On Not Winning the Nobel Prize'' (Nobel Lecture, 2007, published 2008)
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