| Liza of Lambeth | 1897 |
| Mrs. Craddock | 1902 |
| The Magician | 1908 |
| Of Human Bondage | 1915 |
| The Moon and the Sixpence | 1919 |
| The Painted Veil | 1925 |
| Ashenden: Or the British Agent | 1928 |
| Cakes and Ale: or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard | 1930 |
| The Narrow Corner | 1932 |
| Up at the Villa | 1941 |
| The Razor's Edge | 1944 |
| Then and Now | 1946 |
| Theatre | 1947 |
| Catalina | 1948 |
| Collections | |
| The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Seas Islands | 1921 |
| The Casuarina Tree: Six Stories | 1928 |
| Ah King: Six Stories | 1933 |
| Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories | 1936 |
| The Mixture as Before | 1940 |
| Creatures of Circumstance | 1947 |
| Here and There: Short Stories | 1948 |
| Quartet | 1948 |
| Trio | 1950 |
| Encore | 1951 |
| The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham | 1951 |
| Collected Short Stories | 1969 |
| Collected Stories | 2004 |
| Plays | |
| A Man of Honour | 1903 |
| The Circle | 1921 |
| Our Betters | 1923 |
| The Constant Wife | 1927 |
| Non-Fiction | |
| On a Chinese Screen | 1922 |
| The Truth At Last (with Charles Hawtrey) | 1924 |
| The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong | 1930 |
| Don Fernando: or Variations on some Spanish Themes | 1935 |
| The Summing Up | 1938 |
| A Writer's Notebook | 1949 |
| Vagrant Mood: Six Essays | 1952 |
| The Partial View | 1954 |
| The Travel Books of W. Somerset Maugham | 1955 |
| Points of View | 1958 |
| Ten Novels and Their Authors | 1963 |
| Essays on Literature | 1967 |
| Anthologies Contributed To | |
| The Black Cap | 1927 |
| Shudders | 1929 |
| A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series | 1935 |
| The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries | 1936 |
| And the Darkness Falls | 1946 |
| Reading I've Liked | 1946 |
| The Moonlight Traveller | 1949 |
| Master Stories of the Twentieth Century | 1963 |
| The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | 1966 |
| The Ghouls Book 1 | 1971 |
| Great British Short Stories | 1974 |
| Oriental Tales of Terror | 1974 |
| Open At Your Own Risk | 1975 |
| The 13th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | 1977 |
| The 15th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories | 1979 |
| Black Water | 1984 |
| Realms of Darkness | 1985 |
| Short Stories | |
| "The Magician" | 1908 |
| "Lord Mountdrago" | 1939 |
| "A Man From Glasgow" | 1947 |
| "Before The Party" | |
| "The End of the Flight" | |
| "The Facts of Life" | |
| "Footprints in the Jungle" | |
| "Honolulu" | |
| "An Official Position" | |
| "The Outstation" | |
| "The Taipan" | |
| "The Treasure" |