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Fiction

 * All the Conspirators (1928; new edition 1957 with new foreword)
 * The Memorial (1932)
 * Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. edition titled The Last of Mr Norris)
 * "Sally Bowles" (1937; novella later included in Goodbye to Berlin)
 * Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
 * Prater Violet (1945)
 * The Berlin Stories (1945; collects Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin)
 * The World in the Evening (1954)
 * Down There on a Visit (1962)
 * A Single Man (1964)
 * A Meeting by the River (1967)


 * Frankenstein: The True Story (1973, with Don Bachardy; based on their 1973 film script)
 * The Mortmere Stories (with Edward Upward) (1994)
 * "Jacob's Hands: A Fable" (1997) originally co-written with Aldous Huxley

Autobiography, Diaries, Letters

 * Lions and Shadows (1938, autobiographical fiction). Reissued: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000
 * Kathleen and Frank (1971, about Isherwood's parents)
 * Christopher and His Kind (1976, autobiography), 130-copy edition printed by Sylvester & Orphanos, regular publication by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
 * My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
 * October (1980, with Don Bachardy)


 * Diaries: 1939–1960, Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1996)
 * Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951, Katherine Bucknell, ed. (2000)
 * Kathleen and Christopher, Lisa Colletta, ed. (Letters to his mother, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
 * Isherwood on Writing (University of Minnesota Press, 2007; lectures)
 * The Sixties: Diaries:1960–1969 Katherine Bucknell, ed. 2010
 * Liberation: Diaries:1970–1983 Katherine Bucknell, ed. 2012
 * The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Edited by Katherine Bucknell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)

Biography

 * Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)

Plays

 * The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935, with W. H. Auden)
 * The Ascent of F6 (1937, with W. H. Auden)
 * On the Frontier (1938, with W. H. Auden)

Travel

 * Journey to a War (1939, with W. H. Auden)
 * The Condor and the Cows (1949, South-American travel diary)

Collections

 * Exhumations (1966; journalism and stories)
 * Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader (1989; Don Bachardy and James P. White, eds.)

Translations

 * Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals (1930; revised edition 1947)
 * Bhagavad Gita – The Song of God (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1944)
 * Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1947)
 * How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (with Swami Prabhavananda, 1953)

Books and pamphlets

 * Vedanta for the Western World (1945, Marcel Rodd Co.; published in England by George Allen & Unwin, 1948; ed. and introduction, plus several contributions)
 * Vedanta for Modern Man (1951, Harper & Brothers; published in England by George Allen & Unwin, 1952; ed. and contributor)
 * What Vedanta Means to Me (1951, pamphlet)
 * An Approach to Vedanta (1963)
 * Essentials of Vedanta (1969)

Articles in Vedanta and the West
Vedanta and the West (originally titled Voice of India from 1938 to 1940) was the official publication of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. It offered essays by many of the leading intellectuals of the time and had contributions from Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Alan Watts, J. Krishnamurti, W. Somerset Maugham, and many others.

Isherwood wrote the following articles that appeared in Vedanta and the West:


 * Vivekananda and Sarah Bernhardt – 1943
 * On Translating the Gita – 1944
 * Hypothesis and Belief – 1944
 * The Gita and War – 1944
 * What is Vedanta? – 1944
 * Ramakrishna and Vivekananda – 1945
 * The Problem of the Religious Novel – 1946
 * Religion Without Prayers – 1946
 * Foreword to a Man of Boys – 1950
 * An Introduction – 1951
 * What Vedanta Means to Me – 1951
 * Who Is Ramakrishna? – 1957
 * Ramakrishna and the Future – 1958
 * The Home of Ramakrishna – 1958
 * Ramakrishna: A First Chapter – 1959
 * The Birth of Ramakrishna – 1959
 * The Boyhood of Ramakrishna – 1959
 * How Ramakrishna Came to Dakshineswar – 1959
 * Early Days at Dakshineswar – 1959
 * The Vision of Kali – 1960


 * The Marriage of Ramakrishna – 1960
 * The Coming of the Bhariravi – 1960
 * Some Visitors to Dakshineswar – 1960
 * Tota Puri – 1960
 * The Writer and Vedanta – 1961
 * Mathur – 1961
 * Sarada and Chandra – 1962
 * Keshab Sen – 1962
 * The Coming of the Disciples – 1962
 * Introduction to Vivekananda – 1962
 * Naren – 1963
 * The Training of Naren – 1963
 * An Approach to Vedanta – 1963
 * The Young Monks – 1963
 * Some Great Devotees – 1963
 * The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna – 1963
 * The Last Year – 1964
 * The Story Continues – 1964
 * Letters of Swami Vivekananda – 1968
 * Essentials of Vedanta – 1969

In 1945 sixty-eight articles from Vedanta and the West were collected in book form as Vedanta for the Western World. Isherwood edited the selection and provided an introduction and three articles ("Hypothesis and Belief", "Vivekananda and Sarah Bernhardt", "The Gita and War"). Other contributors included Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Swami Prabhavananda, Swami Vivekananda, and John Van Druten.