Mary Renault

Contemporary fiction

• Purposes of Love (1939) (US title: Promise of Love)
• Kind Are Her Answers (1940)
• The Friendly Young Ladies (1944) It was published in the US as The Middle Mist, 1945
• Return to Night (1947) A French translation was published in Paris in 1948 by A. Michel, under the title "Recours à la nuit".
• The North Face (1948) (US 1949)
• The Charioteer (1953) (US 1959) The Charioteer was published in Spanish in 1989 – translated by María José Rodellar – with the title El Auriga, and into Greek in 1990 with the title Hō eniochos.

Historical novels

• The Last of the Wine (1956) — set in Athens during the Peloponnesian War; the narrator is a student of Socrates
• The King Must Die (1958) — the mythical Theseus up to his father's death
• The Bull from the Sea (1962) — the remainder of Theseus' life
• The Mask of Apollo (1966) — an actor at the time of Plato and Dionysius the Younger (brief appearance by Alexander near the end of the book)
• Fire from Heaven (1969) — Alexander the Great from the age of four up to his father's death
• The Persian Boy (1972) — from Bagoas' perspective; Alexander the Great after the conquest of Persia
• The Praise Singer (1978) — the poet Simonides of Ceos (UK 1979)
• Funeral Games (1981) — Alexander's successors

Non-fiction

• The Lion in the Gateway: The Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae (1964) — about the Persian Wars
• The Nature of Alexander (1975) — a biography of Alexander the Great