| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1945 | "Miriam" | Short story; published in Mademoiselle |
| 1948 | Other Voices, Other Rooms | Novel |
| 1949 | A Tree of Night and Other Stories | Collection of short stories |
| 1950 | "House of Flowers" | Short story; the first chapter was published in Botteghe Oscure in 1950 and in Harper's Bazaar in 1951 |
| 1950 | Local Color | Book; collection of European travel essays |
| 1951 | The Grass Harp | Novel |
| 1952 | The Grass Harp | Play |
| 1953 | Beat the Devil | Original screenplay |
| Terminal Station | Screenplay (dialogue only) |
| 1954 | House of Flowers | Broadway musical |
| 1955 | "Carmen Therezinha Solbiati – So Chic" | Short story (Brazilian jet-setter Carmen Mayrink Veiga); published in Vogue in 1956[citation needed] |
| 1956 | The Muses Are Heard | Nonfiction |
| 1956 | "A Christmas Memory" | Short story; published in Mademoiselle |
| 1957 | "The Duke in His Domain" | Profile of Marlon Brando; published in The New Yorker; Republished in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker in 2001 |
| 1958 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Novella |
| 1959 | "Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir" | Autobiographical essay, photos by David Attie; published in the February 1959 issue of Holiday Magazine and later as "A House On The Heights" in 2002 (see below) |
| 1959 | Observations | Collaborative art and photography book; photos by Richard Avedon, comments by Truman Capote and design by Alexey Brodovitch |
| 1960 | The Innocents | Screenplay based on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James; 1962 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, to Capote and William Archibald for Best Motion Picture Screenplay |
| 1963 | Selected Writings of Truman Capote | Midcareer retrospective anthology; fiction and nonfiction |
| 1964 | | A short story appeared in Seventeen magazine |
| 1965 | In Cold Blood | "Nonfiction novel"; Capote's second Edgar Award (1966), for Best Fact Crime book |
| 1967 | "A Christmas Memory" | Best Screenplay Emmy Award; ABC TV movie |
| 1968 | The Thanksgiving Visitor | Short story published as a gift book |
| Laura | Television film; original screenplay |
| 1973 | The Dogs Bark | Collection of travel articles and personal sketches |
| 1975 | "Mojave" and "La Cote Basque, 1965" | Short stories published in Esquire |
| 1976 | "Unspoiled Monsters" and "Kate McCloud" | Short stories published in Esquire |
| 1980 | Music for Chameleons | Collection of short works mixing fiction and nonfiction |
| 1983 | "One Christmas" | Short story published as a gift book |
| 1986 | Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel | Published posthumously, in the UK in 1986, in the US in 1987. |
| 1987 | A Capote Reader | Omnibus edition containing most of Capote's shorter works, fiction and nonfiction |
| 2002 | A House on the Heights | Book edition of Capote's essay, "Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir" (1959), with a new introduction by George Plimpton |
| 2004 | The Complete Stories of Truman Capote | Anthology of twenty short stories |
| 2004 | Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote | Edited by Capote biographer Gerald Clarke |
| 2005 | Summer Crossing | Novel; Published by Random House |
| 2007 | Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote | Published by Random House |
| 2015 | The Early Stories of Truman Capote | Published by Random House; 14 previously unpublished stories, written by Capote when he was a teenager, discovered in the New York Public Library Archives in 2013. |
| 2023 | "Another Day in Paradise" | Published in The Strand magazine; discovered in the archives of the Library of Congress, written in Sicily in the 1950s |
