Works

• Short stories

London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed.[citation needed] "To Build a Fire" is the best known of all his stories. Set in the harsh Klondike, it recounts the haphazard trek of a new arrival who has ignored an old-timer's warning about the risks of traveling alone. Falling through the ice into a creek in seventy-five-below weather, the unnamed man is keenly aware that survival depends on his untested skills at quickly building a fire to dry his clothes and warm his extremities. After publishing a tame version of this story—with a sunny outcome—in The Youth's Companion in 1902, London offered a second, more severe take on the man's predicament in The Century Magazine in 1908.

Short stories

1. "An Old Soldier's Story" (1894)
2. "Who Believes in Ghosts!" (1895)
3. "And 'FRISCO Kid Came Back" (1895)
4. "Night's Swim In Yeddo Bay" (1895)
5. "One More Unfortunate" (1895)
6. "Sakaicho, Hona Asi And Hakadaki" (1895)
7. "A Klondike Christmas" (1897)
8. "Mahatma's Little Joke" (1897)
9. "O Haru" (1897)
10. "Plague Ship" (1897)
11. "The Strange Experience Of A Misogynist" (1897)
12. "Two Gold Bricks" (1897)
13. "The Devil's Dice Box" (1898)
14. "A Dream Image" (1898)
15. "The Test: A Clondyke Wooing" (1898)
16. "To the Man on Trail" (1898)
17. "In a Far Country" (1899)
18. "The King of Mazy May" (1899)
19. "The End Of The Chapter" (1899)
20. "The Grilling Of Loren Ellery" (1899)
21. "The Handsome Cabin Boy" (1899)
22. "In The Time Of Prince Charley" (1899)
23. "Old Baldy" (1899)
24. "The Men of Forty Mile" (1899)
25. "Pluck And Pertinacity" (1899)
26. "The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone" (1899)
27. "The White Silence" (1899)
28. "A Thousand Deaths" (1899)
29. "Wisdom of the Trail" (1899)
30. "An Odyssey of the North" (1900)
31. "The Son of the Wolf" (1900)
32. "Even unto Death" (1900)
33. "The Man with the Gash" (1900)
34. "A Lesson In Heraldry" (1900)
35. "A Northland Miracle" (1900)
36. "Proper "GIRLIE"" (1900)
37. "Thanksgiving On Slav Creek" (1900)
38. "Their Alcove" (1900)
39. "Housekeeping In The Klondike" (1900)
40. "Dutch Courage" (1900)
41. "Where the Trail Forks" (1900)
42. "Hyperborean Brew" (1901)
43. "A Relic of the Pliocene" (1901)
44. "The Lost Poacher" (1901)
45. "The God of His Fathers" (1901)
46. ""FRISCO Kid's" Story" (1901)
47. "The Law of Life" (1901)
48. "The Minions of Midas" (1901)
49. "In the Forests of the North" (1902)
50. "The "Fuzziness" of Hoockla-Heen" (1902)
51. "The Story of Keesh" (1902)
52. "Keesh, Son of Keesh" (1902)
53. "Nam-Bok, the Unveracious" (1902)
54. "Li Wan the Fair" (1902)
55. "Lost Face"
56. "Master of Mystery" (1902)
57. "The Sunlanders" (1902)
58. "The Death of Ligoun" (1902)
59. "Moon-Face" (1902)
60. "Diable—A Dog" (1902), renamed Bâtard in 1904
61. "To Build a Fire" (1902, revised 1908)
62. "The League of the Old Men" (1902)
63. "The Dominant Primordial Beast" (1903)
64. "The One Thousand Dozen" (1903)
65. "The Marriage of Lit-lit" (1903)
66. "The Shadow and the Flash" (1903)
67. "The Leopard Man's Story" (1903)
68. "Negore the Coward" (1904)
69. "All Gold Cañon" (1905)
70. "Love of Life" (1905)
71. "The Sun-Dog Trail" (1905)
72. "The Apostate" (1906)
73. "Up The Slide" (1906)
74. "Planchette" (1906)
75. "Brown Wolf" (1906)
76. "Make Westing" (1907)
77. "Chased By The Trail" (1907)
78. "Trust" (1908)
79. "A Curious Fragment" (1908)
80. "Aloha Oe" (1908)
81. "That Spot" (1908)
82. "The Enemy of All the World" (1908)
83. "The House of Mapuhi" (1909)
84. "Good-by, Jack" (1909)
85. "Samuel" (1909)
86. "South of the Slot" (1909)
87. "The Chinago" (1909)
88. "The Dream of Debs" (1909)
89. "The Madness of John Harned" (1909)
90. "The Seed of McCoy" (1909)
91. "A Piece of Steak" (1909)
92. "Mauki" (1909)
93. "Goliath" (1910)
94. "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910)
95. "Told in the Drooling Ward" (1910)
96. "When the World was Young" (1910)
97. "The Terrible Solomons" (1910)
98. "The Inevitable White Man" (1910)
99. "The Heathen" (1910)
100. "Yah! Yah! Yah!" (1910)
101. "By the Turtles of Tasman" (1911)
102. "The Mexican" (1911)
103. "War" (1911)
104. "The Unmasking Of The Cad" (1911)
105. "The Scarlet Plague" (1912)
106. "The Captain Of The Susan Drew" (1912)
107. "The Sea-Farmer" (1912)
108. "The Feathers of the Sun" (1912)
109. "The Prodigal Father" (1912)
110. "Samuel" (1913)
111. "The Sea-Gangsters" (1913)
112. "The Strength of the Strong" (1914)
113. "Told in the Drooling Ward" (1914)
114. "The Hussy" (1916)
115. "Like Argus of the Ancient Times" (1917)
116. "Jerry of the Islands" (1917)
117. "The Red One" (1918)
118. "Shin-Bones" (1918)
119. "The Bones of Kahekili" (1919)

• Novels

London's most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel, and Martin Eden.

In a letter dated Dec 27, 1901, London's Macmillan publisher George Platt Brett, Sr. said "he believed Jack's fiction represented 'the very best kind of work' done in America."

Critic Maxwell Geismar called The Call of the Wild "a beautiful prose poem"; editor Franklin Walker said that it "belongs on a shelf with Walden and Huckleberry Finn"; and novelist E.L. Doctorow called it "a mordant parable ... his masterpiece.

Novels

1. The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902)
2. A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
3. The Call of the Wild (1903)
4. The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903) (published anonymously, co-authored with Anna Strunsky)
5. The Sea-Wolf (1904)
6. The Game (1905)
7. White Fang (1906)
8. Before Adam (1907)
9. The Iron Heel (1908)
10. Martin Eden (1909)
11. Burning Daylight (1910)
12. Adventure (1911)
13. The Scarlet Plague (1912)
14. A Son of the Sun (1912)
15. The Abysmal Brute (1913)
16. The Valley of the Moon (1913)
17. The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914)
18. The Star Rover (1915) (published in England as The Jacket)
19. The Little Lady of the Big House (1916)
20. Jerry of the Islands (1917)
21. Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917)
22. Hearts of Three (1920) (novelization of a script by Charles Goddard)
23. The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963) (left half-finished, completed by Robert L. Fish)

Short story collections

1. Son of the Wolf (1900)
2. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman (1901)
3. The God of His Fathers & Other Stories (1901)
4. Children of the Frost (1902)
5. The Faith of Men and Other Stories (1904)
6. Tales of the Fish Patrol (1906)
7. Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906)
8. Love of Life and Other Stories (1907)
9. Lost Face (1910)
10. South Sea Tales (1911)
11. When God Laughs and Other Stories (1911)
12. The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii (1912)
13. A Son of the Sun (1912)
14. The Night Born (1913)
15. The Strength of the Strong (1914)
16. The Turtles of Tasman (1916)
17. The Human Drift (1917)
18. The Red One (1918)
19. On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
20. Dutch Courage and Other Stories (1922)

Autobiographical memoirs

1. The Road (1907)
2. The Cruise of the Snark (1911)
3. Smoke Bellew (1912)
4. John Barleycorn (1913)

Non-fiction and essays

1. Through The Rapids On The Way To The Klondike (1899)
2. From Dawson To The Sea (1899)
3. What Communities Lose By The Competitive System (1900)
4. The Impossibility Of War (1900)
5. Phenomena Of Literary Evolution (1900)
6. A Letter To Houghton Mifflin Co. (1900)
7. Husky, Wolf Dog Of The North (1900)
8. Editorial Crimes – A Protest (1901)
9. Again The Literary Aspirant (1902)
10. The People of the Abyss (1903)
11. How I Became a Socialist (1903)
12. The War of the Classes (1905)
13. The Story Of An Eyewitness (1906)
14. A Letter To Woman's Home Companion (1906)
15. Revolution, and other Essays (1910)
16. Mexico's Army And Ours (1914)
17. Lawgivers (1914)
18. Our Adventures In Tampico (1914)
19. Stalking The Pestilence (1914)
20. The Red Game Of War (1914)
21. The Trouble Makers Of Mexico (1914)
22. With Funston’s Men (1914)