Essays and Non-Fiction
Rocking the Boat
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
Sex, Death and Money
Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays- 1973-1976
Second American Revolution and Other Essays
Armageddon?
At Home Essays 1982-1988
A View from the Diners Club
Screening History
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (Real Story Series)
United States: Essays, 1952-92 v. 1
Palimpsest: A Memoir
Virgin Islands
The American Presidency
Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
The Last Empire
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (Yale Nota Bene series)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
Selected Essays
Novels
Williwaw
In a Yellow Wood
The City and the Pillar
The Season of Comfort
A Search for the King
Dark Green, Bright Red
The Judgment of Paris
Messiah
Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories
Julian
Washington, D.C: A novel
Myra Breckinridge & Myron
Two Sisters
Burr (Narratives of a Golden Age)
Myron
1876 (Narratives of a Golden Age)
Kalki
Creation
Duluth
Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age)
Empire (Narratives of Empire)
Hollywood (Narratives of a Golden Age)
Live from Golgotha
The Smithsonian Institution
The Golden Age (Narratives of Empire)
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories