นวนิยาย

• Dusklands (1974) ISBN 0-14-024177-9
• In the Heart of the Country (1977) ISBN 0-14-006228-9
• Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) ISBN 0-14-006110-X
• Life & Times of Michael K (1983) ISBN 0-14-007448-1
• Foe (1986) ISBN 0-14-009623-X
• Age of Iron (1990) ISBN 0-14-027565-7
• The Master of Petersburg (1994) ISBN 0-14-023810-7
• The Lives of Animals (1999) ISBN 0-691-07089-X
• Disgrace (1999) ISBN 0-09-928952-0
• Elizabeth Costello (2003) ISBN 0-670-03130-5
• Slow Man (2005) ISBN 0-670-03459-2
• Diary of a Bad Year (2007) ISBN 1-846-55120-X
• The Childhood of Jesus (2013) ISBN 978-1-84655-726-2
• The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) ISBN 978-1-91121-535-6
• The Death of Jesus (2019) ISBN 978-1-92226-828-0

นวนิยายเชิงอัตชีวประวัติ

• Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) ISBN 0-14-026566-X
• Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) ISBN 0-670-03102-X
• Summertime (2009) ISBN 1-846-55318-0

สารคดี

• White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988) ISBN 0-300-03974-3
• Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992) ISBN 0-674-21518-4
• Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996), University of Chicago Press [hence, US spelling "offense"] ISBN 0-226-11176-8
• Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986-1999 (2002) ISBN 0-142-00137-6
• Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000-2005 (2007) ISBN 0-099-50614-9

งานแปล

• A Posthumous Confession by Marcellus Emants (Boston: Twayne, 1976 & London: Quartet, 1986) Translated by J. M. Coetzee.
• The Expedition to the Boabab Tree by Wilma Stockenström (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1983 & London: Faber, 1984) Translated by J. M. Coetzee.
• Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands Translated and Introduced by J. M. Coetzee (2004) ISBN 0-691-12385-3
• Introduction to Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Oxford World's Classics) ISBN 0-192-10033-5
• Introduction to Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Penguin Classics) ISBN 0-142-43797-2
• Introduction to Dangling Man by Saul Bellow (Penguin Classics) ISBN 0-143-03987-3

งานวิพากษ์วรรณกรรม

• Coetzee, J. M. (30 April 2009). "The Making of Samuel Beckett". The New York Review of Books. 56 (7): 13–16.

งานที่ได้รับการดัดแปลงสำหรับภาพยนตร์และโทรทัศน์

• Dust (1985), based on In the Heart of the Country
• The Lives of Animals (2002)
• Disgrace (2008)