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Sir Kingsley Amis was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of his works:
- Poetry
- 1947 Bright November
- 1953 A Frame of Mind
- 1954 Poems: Fantasy Portraits
- 1956 A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956
- 1962 The Evans County
- 1968 A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967
- 1979 Collected Poems 1944–78
- Novels
- c.1948 The Legacy (unpublished)
- 1954 Lucky Jim
- 1955 That Uncertain Feeling
- 1958 I Like It Here
- 1960 Take a Girl Like You
- 1963 One Fat Englishman
- 1965 The Egyptologists (with Robert Conquest)
- 1966 The Anti-Death League
- 1968 Colonel Sun: a James Bond Adventure (pseud. Robert Markham)
- 1968 I Want It Now
- 1969 The Green Man
- 1971 Girl, 20
- 1973 The Riverside Villas Murder
- 1974 Ending Up
- 1975 The Crime of the Century
- 1976 The Alteration
- 1978 Jake's Thing
- 1980 Russian Hide-and-Seek
- 1984 Stanley and the Women
- 1986 The Old Devils
- 1988 Difficulties with Girls
- 1990 The Folks That Live on the Hill
- 1991 We Are All Guilty
- 1992 The Russian Girl
- 1994 You Can't Do Both
- 1995 The Biographer's Moustache
- c.1995 Black and White (unfinished)[35]
- Short fiction collections
- 1962 My Enemy's Enemy
- 1980 Collected Short Stories
- 1991 Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories
- Other short fiction
- 1960 "Hemingway in Space" (short story), Punch December 1960
- Non-fiction
- 1957 Socialism and the Intellectuals, a Fabian Society pamphlet
- 1960 New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
- 1965 The James Bond Dossier
- 1965 The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (pseud. Lt.-Col William ('Bill') Tanner)
- 1970 What Became of Jane Austen?, and Other Questions
- 1972 On Drink
- 1974 Rudyard Kipling and His World
- 1983 Everyday Drinking
- 1984 How's Your Glass?
- 1990 The Amis Collection
- 1991 Memoirs
- 1997 The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage (name in part a pun as he was sometimes called "Kingers" or "The King" by friends and family, as told by his son Martin in his memoir Experience)
- 2001 The Letters of Kingsley Amis, Edited by Zachary Leader
- 2008 Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis, Introduction by Christopher Hitchens (an omnibus edition of On Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass?)
- Editor
- 1967 Spectrum V : a fifth science fiction anthology (ed. with Robert Conquest)
- 1978 The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (ed.)