In a writing career spanning more than 60 years (1946–2008), science fiction and fantasy author Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) published almost 60 novels, over 100 short stories and novellas (many expanded or combined into novels), two "fictional biographies", and numerous essays, articles and ephemera in fan publications.
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) ISBN 0-345-41967-7
- The Fabulous Riverboat (1971) ISBN 0-345-41968-5
- The Dark Design (1977) ISBN 0-345-41969-3
- The Magic Labyrinth (1980) ISBN 0-89370-258-7
- Gods of Riverworld (1983) ISBN 0-345-41971-5
River of Eternity (Riverworld Variant) (1983) ISBN 0-932096-28-X- Image of the Beast (1968) (erotic novel) ISBN 1-902197-24-0
- Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind (1969) (erotic novel) ISBN 0-586-06211-4
- [The third book in the series was never-written, but it can be inferred that Herald Childe became amnesiac in it.]
- Traitor to the Living (1973) ISBN 0-345-23613-0 (non-erotic novel featuring Herald Childe)
Image of the Beast (Playboy, 1979) (omnibus edition of Image of the Beast and Blown)- Dayworld (1985) ISBN 0-399-12967-7
- Dayworld Rebel (1987) ISBN 0-441-14002-5
- Dayworld Breakup (1990) ISBN 0-8125-0889-0
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974) ISBN 0-915230-06-2, writing as John H. Watson about Tarzan meeting Sherlock Holmes.Reissued by Titan Books in 2011 (ISBN 0-85768-120-6) as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. It has the abbreviated title of The Peerless Peer.Rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with Mowgli replacing Tarzan—in The Grand Adventure collection (1984)The Dark Heart of Time (1999) ISBN 0-345-42463-8, authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. (ERB) estate; antagonist is an American millionaire seeking the secret of Tarzan's immortalityThe Khokarsa series, featuring a character named John Gribardsun (in Time's Last Gift) and Sahhindar (in Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar), who is hinted, but never stated, to be an immortal Tarzan time-traveling from the future to before 10,000 BC.
Time's Last Gift (1972) ISBN 0-8125-1440-8Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974) ISBN 0-87997-637-3.Flight to Opar (1976) ISBN 0-87997-718-3.The Song of Kwasin (coauthored with Christopher Paul Carey), published in Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa omnibus (below).Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa, omnibus of Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, and The Song of Kwasin, (2012) ISBN 978-1-59606-471-3."Kwasin and the Bear God" (20,000-word novella coauthored with Christopher Paul Carey)Secrets of the Nine (Lord Grandrith & Doc Caliban)
Alternate and renamed versions of Tarzan and Doc Savage as half-brothers involved in a world-ruling conspiracy.
A Feast Unknown (1969) ISBN 0-87216-586-8Lord of the Trees / The Mad Goblin (dos-a-dos Ace Double, 1970) ISBN 0-441-49252-5The Empire of the Nine (Sphere, 1988) Omnibus reprint of the Ace Double with The Mad Goblin retitled as Keepers of the Secrets.Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke (1972) ISBN 0-87216-876-X"The Arms of Tarzan" (1971)"Tarzan's Coat of Arms" (1971)"Tarzan Lives" (1972) - republished as "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke" (1973)"The Great Korak-Time Discrepancy" (1972)"Extracts from the Memoirs of "Lord Greystoke"" (1974)Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) ISBN 0-385-08488-9The Green Odyssey (1957) ISBN 1-4344-8494-7Flesh (1960) ISBN 0-85391-126-6 (expanded 1967, Doubleday)A Woman a Day (also as The Day of Timestop; 1960) ISBN 0-425-04526-9 (expanded from 1953 novella, Moth and Rust) (connected to The Lovers)The Lovers (1961) ISBN 0-345-28691-X (expanded from the 1952 novella) (revised 1977)[1]Cache from Outer Space (1962)Fire and the Night (1962)Inside Outside (1964) ISBN 0-425-04041-0Tongues of the Moon (1964) ISBN 0-515-04595-0 (expanded from the 1961 novella)Dare (1965) ISBN 1-60010-438-XThe Gate of Time (1966), revised and expanded as Two Hawks from Earth (1979) ISBN 0-7043-1171-2Night of Light (1966) ISBN 0-425-02249-8Lord Tyger (1970) ISBN 0-451-05096-7Love Song (1970)The Stone God Awakens (1970) ISBN 0-441-78654-5The Wind Whales of Ishmael (1971) ISBN 0-441-89240-XThe Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) ISBN 0-8125-2468-3Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) (writing as Kilgore Trout) ISBN 0-440-36149-4Ironcastle (1976) (translation/expansion of work by J.-H. Rosny) ISBN 0-87997-545-8Jesus on Mars (1979) ISBN 0-523-40184-1Dark Is the Sun (1979) ISBN 0-345-33956-8The Unreasoning Mask (1981) ISBN 1-58567-715-9Stations of the Nightmare (1982) ISBN 0-8125-3773-4Greatheart Silver (1982) ISBN 0-523-48535-2A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) ISBN 0-425-06274-0Escape From Loki (1991) ISBN 0-553-29093-2Nothing Burns in Hell (1998) ISBN 0-312-86470-1Up From the Bottomless Pit, published in ten parts in Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer (2005–2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6Co-authored novels:
The Caterpillar's Question (1992) (with Piers Anthony) ISBN 0-441-00213-7Naked Came The Farmer (1998) (with Nancy Atherton, Terry Bibo, Steven Burgauer, Dorothy Cannell, David Everson, Joseph Flynn, Julie Kistler, Jerry Klein, Bill Knight, Tracy Knight, Garry Moore and Joel Steinfeldt) ISBN 0-9624613-7-7The City Beyond Play, coauthored with Danny Adams (2007) ISBN 1-905834-24-1The Evil in Pemberley House, coauthored with Win Scott Eckert (2009), featuring the daughter of "Doc Savage" ISBN 1-59606-249-5Strange Relations (1960) (collects "Mother", "Daughter", "Father", "Son", "My Sister's Brother") ISBN 1-4165-0934-8The Alley God (1962) ISBN 0-283-48417-9The Celestial Blueprint: And Other Stories (1962)Down in the Black Gang (1971) ISBN 0-451-04805-9The Book of Philip José Farmer, or the Wares of Simple Simon's Custard Pie and Space Man (1973) ISBN 0-86007-958-9Riverworld and Other Stories (1979) ISBN 0-425-06487-5Riverworld War: The Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer (1980) (includes a condensed version of Jesus on Mars and several chapters cut from The Magic Labyrinth before publication)The Cache (1981) ISBN 0-8125-3755-6 (collection of Cache from Outer Space (1962) plus shorts)Father to the Stars (1981) ISBN 0-523-48504-2The Purple Book (1982) ISBN 0-523-48529-8The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1952–1964 (1984) (edited by Martin H Greenberg) ISBN 0-517-55193-4The Classic Philip José Farmer, 1964–1973 (1984) ISBN 0-517-55545-XThe Grand Adventure (1984) (includes The Adventure of the Three Madmen) ISBN 0-425-07211-8Riders of the Purple Wage (1992) ISBN 0-8125-1905-1Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (2005) (edited by Win Scott Eckert) ISBN 1-932265-14-7The Best of Philip José Farmer (2006) ISBN 1-59606-036-0Strange Relations (2006) (omnibus of The Lovers, Flesh, and the collection Strange Relations [1960]) ISBN 1-4165-5526-9Pearls from Peoria (2006) ISBN 1-59606-059-XUp from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories (2007) ISBN 1-59606-128-6Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (2008) includes novels Venus on the Half-Shell and The Adventure of the Peerless Peer plus other stories written as by fictional characters ISBN 1-59606-142-1The Other in the Mirror (2009) (omnibus of Fire & The Night, Jesus on Mars, Night of Light) ISBN 1-59606-231-2The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions (2010) ISBN 0-615-37005-5Up the Bright River (2010) ISBN 1-59606-329-7The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul (2011) ISBN 0-9837461-0-9The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of a Trickster (2012) ISBN 0-9837461-1-7Tales of the Wold Newton Universe (2013) ISBN 1-78116-304-9Mother Was A Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology, Fiction And Fact About Humans Raised By Animals (1974) ISBN 0-8019-5964-0Tales of Riverworld (1992) ISBN 0-446-36269-7Quest to Riverworld (1993) with uncredited co-editors Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer ISBN 0-446-36270-0