novels
Small Ceremonies, 1976 my reviewThe Box Garden, 1977 (Later published in a joint edition with Small Ceremonies as Duet) my review
Happenstance, 1980 my review
A Fairly Conventional Woman, 1982 (published with Happenstance as The Wife's Tale and The Husband's Tale)
Swann: A Mystery, 1987 my review
A Celibate Season, my review 1991 (with Blanche Howard)
The Republic of Love, 1992
The Stone Diaries, my review 1993 (winner of the Governor General's Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize)
Larry's Party, 1997 (winner of the Orange Prize, and the Prix de Livre), my review
Unless, 2002 my review (winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize)
short story collections
Various Miracles, 1985 my reviewThe Orange Fish, 1989
Dressing Up for the Carnival, 2000 my review
Collected Stories. Toronto: Random House, 2004.
Criticism
Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision, 1976 Biography
Jane Austen. New York: Viking, 2001.
Anthologies
Dropped Threads: What We aren't Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2001. (edited with Marjorie Anderson)Dropped Threads 2: More of What We aren't Told. Toronto: Vintage, 2003. (edited with Marjorie Anderson)
Letters
A Memoir of Friendship: the letters between Carol Shields and Blanche HowardThe Staircase Letters: an extraordinary friendship at the end of life my review