Rocking the Boat (1963)

　　Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)

　　Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)

　　Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)

　　Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)

　　Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)

　　The Second American Revolution (1982)

　　Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)

　　At Home (1988)

　　A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)

　　Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3

　　Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3

　　United States: essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6

　　Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0

　　Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)

　　The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1

　　Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)

　　The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition)

　　Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X

　　Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1

　　Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6

　　Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X

　　Point to Point Navigation : A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1

　　The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6

　　Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-810-95049-9