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==Works== ===Novels=== * ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'', London: Allen, 1958; New York: Knopf, 1959. New edition (1968) has an introduction by Sillitoe, commentary and notes by David Craig. Longman edition (1976) has a sequence of Nottingham photographs, and stills from the film, Harlow. * ''[[The General (1960 novel)|The General]]'', London: Allen, 1960; New York: Knopf, 1961 * ''[[Key to the Door (novel)|Key to the Door]]'', London: Allen, 1961; New York: Knopf, 1962; reprinted, with a new preface by Sillitoe, London: Allen, 1978 * ''[[The Death of William Posters]]'', London: Allen, 1965; New York: Knopf, 1965 * ''A Tree on Fire'', London: Macmillan, 1967; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968 * ''[[A Start in Life (1970 novel)|A Start in Life]]'', London: Allen, 1970; New York: Scribners, 1971 * ''Travels in Nihilon'', London: Allen, 1971; New York: Scribners, 1972 * ''The Flame of Life'', London: Allen, 1974 * ''[[The Widower's Son]]'', Allen, 1976; New York: Harper & Row, 1977 * ''The Storyteller'', London: Allen, 1979; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. * ''Her Victory'', London: Granada, 1982; New York: Watts, 1982 * ''The Lost Flying Boat'', London: Granada, 1983; Boston: Little, Brown, 1983 * ''Down from the Hill'', London: Granada, 1984 * ''Life Goes On'', London: Granada, 1985 * ''Out of the Whirlpool''. London: Hutchinson, 1987 * ''[[The Open Door (Sillitoe novel)|The Open Door]]'', London: Grafton/Collins, 1989 * ''Last Loves'', London: Grafton, 1990; Boston: Chivers, 1991 * ''Leonard's War: A Love Story''. London: HarperCollins, 1991 * ''Snowstop'', London: HarperCollins, 1993 * ''The Broken Chariot'', London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1998 * ''The German Numbers Woman'', London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1999 * ''Birthday'', London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2001 * ''A Man of His Time'', Flamingo (UK), 2004, {{ISBN|0-00-717327-X}}; Harper Perennial (US), 2005. {{ISBN|0-00-717328-8}}; {{ISBN|978-0-00-717328-0}} ===Collections of short stories=== * ''[[The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (collection)|The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner]]'', London: Allen, 1959; New York: Knopf, 1960 * ''The Ragman’s Daughter and Other Stories'', London: Allen, 1963; New York: Knopf, 1964 * ''Guzman, Go Home, and Other Stories'', London: Macmillan, 1968; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969; reprinted, with a new preface by Sillitoe, London; Allen, 1979 * ''Men, Women and Children'', London: Allen, 1973; New York: Scribners, 1974 * ''Down to the Bone'', Exeter: Wheaton, 1976 * ''The Second Chance and Other Stories'', London: Cape, 1981; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981 * ''The Far Side of the Street: Fifteen Short Stories'', London: Allen, 1988 * ''Alligator Playground: A Collection of Short Stories'', Flamingo, 1997, {{ISBN|0-00-655073-8}} * ''New and Collected Stories'', Carroll and Graf, 2005. {{ISBN|0-7867-1476-X}} ===Compilations=== * ''Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader'', with an introduction by John Sawkins London: Allen, 1987 * ''Collected Stories'', London: Flamingo, 1995; New York: HarperCollins, 1996 ===Writing for children=== * ''The City Adventures of Marmalade Jim'', London: Macmillan, 1967; Toronto: Macmillan, 1967; revised ed., London: Robson, 1977 * ''Big John and the Stars'', London: Robson, 1977 * ''The Incredible Fencing Fleas'', London: Robson, 1978. Illus. Mike Wilks. * ''Marmalade Jim at the Farm'', London: Robson, 1980 * ''Marmalade Jim and the Fox'', London: Robson, 1984 ===Essays/travel=== * ''Road to Volgograd'', London: Allen, 1964; New York: Knopf, 1964 * ''Raw Material'', London: Allen, 1972; New York: Scribners, 1973; rev. ed., London: Pan Books, 1974; further revised, London: Star Books, 1978; further revised, London: Allen, 1979 * ''Mountains and Caverns: Selected Essays'', London: Allen, 1975 * ''Words Broadsheet Nineteen'', by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. Bramley, Surrey: Words Press, 1975. Broadside * ''"The Interview"'', London: The 35s (Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry), 1976 * ''Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme'', with drawings by Ralph Steadman; London: Steam Press, 1981 98 copies. * ''The Saxon Shore Way: From Gravesend to Rye'', by Sillitoe and Fay Godwin. London: Hutchinson, 1983 * ''Alan Sillitoe’s Nottinghamshire'', with photographs by David Sillitoe. London: Grafton, 1987 * ''Shylock the Writer'', London: Turret Bookshop, 1991 * ''The Mentality of the Picaresque Hero'', London: Turret Bookshop, 1993, Turret Papers, no. 2. (500 copies) * ''Leading the Blind: A Century of Guidebook Travel. 1815-1914'', London: Macmillan, 1995 * ''Gadfly in Russia'', JR Books, 2007 ===Plays=== * ''Three Plays'', London: Allen, 1978 Contains ''The Slot-Machine'', ''The Interview'', ''Pit Strike'' ===Autobiography=== *''Life Without Armour'', (HarperCollins, 1995) {{ISBN|0-00-255570-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-00-255570-8}} ===Collections of poems=== * ''Without Beer or Bread'', Dulwich Village: Outposts, 1957 * ''The Rats and Other Poems'', London: Allen, 1960 * ''Falling Out of Love and Other Poems'', London; Allen, 1964; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964 * ''Shaman and Other Poems"'', Turret, 1968 (Limited ed. of 500 copies, 100 copies signed and numbered) * ''Love in the Environs of Voronezh and Other Poems'', London: Macmillan, 1968; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. * ''Poems'', by Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and Ted Hughes; London: Rainbow Press, 1971. (300 copies) * ''From Canto Two of The Rats'', Wittersham, Kent: Alan Sillitoe, 1973 * ''Barbarians and Other Poems'', London: Turret Books, 1973. 500 copies * ''Storm: New Poems'', London: Allen, 1974 * ''Somme'', London: Steam Press, 1974. In Steam Press Portfolio, no. 2. 50 copies * ''Day-Dream Communiqué'', Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1977. 150 copies * ''From Snow on the North Side of Lucifer'', Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1979. (150 copies) * ''Snow on the North Side of Lucifer: Poems'', London: Allen, 1979 * ''Poems for Shakespeare 7'', Bear Gardens Museum and Arts Centre, 1979 (Limited to 500 numbered copies) * ''More Lucifer'', Knotting, Bedfordshire: Martin Booth, 1980. 125 copies * ''Sun Before Departure: Poems, 1974–1982'', London: Granada, 1984 * ''Tides and Stone Walls: Poems'', with photographs by Victor Bowley; London: Grafton, 1986 * ''Three Poems'', Child Okefurd, Dorset: Words Press, 1988. 200 copies * ''Collected Poems'', London: HarperCollins, 1993 ===Film scripts=== * ''[[Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)|Saturday Night and Sunday Morning]]'' (1960) (screenplay based on own novel) * ''[[The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)|The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner]]'' (1962) (screenplay based on own short story) * ''[[Counterpoint (1968 film)|Counterpoint]]'' (1967) (based on his novel ''The General'') * ''[[The Ragman's Daughter]]'' (1972) (based on short story) ===Translations=== *''Chopin's Winter in Majorca 1838–1839'', by Luis Ripoll, translated by Sillitoe. Palma de Majorca: Mossen Alcover, 1955 *''Chopin’s Pianos: The Pleyel in Majorca,'' by Luis Ripoll, translated by Sillitoe. Palma de Majorca: Mossen Alcover, 1958 * ''All Citizens Are Soldiers (Fuente Ovejuna): A Play in Two Acts'', by [[Lope de Vega]], translated by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. London: Macmillan, 1969; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1969 * ''Poems for Shakespeare, volume 7'', edited and translated by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. London: Bear Gardens Museum & Arts Centre, 1980
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