Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847)

Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849)

Redburn, His First Voyage (1849)

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850)

Moby Dick; or, The Whale (1851)

Pierre; or The Ambiguities (1852)

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855)

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)

Billy Budd (written between 1888 and 1891; published posthumously 1924).

The Piazza Tales (1856), includes “The Piazza,” “Bartleby the Scrivener,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles,” and “The Lightning-Rod Man”

The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches (1922), contains 10 pieces first published in periodicals between 1850-56

Journal up the Straits, October 1, 1856-May 5, 1857 (1935)

Journal of Melville's Voyage in the Clipper Ship, Meteor (1929).

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)

John Marr, and Other Sailors; With Some Sea-Pieces (1888)

Timoleon (1891)

Poems unpublished during Melville's lifetime are included in later collections and selections.