Christopher Hitchens bibliography

Books

Sole author

• 1984 Cyprus. Quartet. Revised editions as Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and 1997 (Verso). ISBN 978-0-704-32436-7
• 1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988) / 1997 UK Verso edition as The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns). Reissued and updated 2008 as The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification, Verso. ISBN 978-0-809-04189-3
• 1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reissued 2004, with a new introduction, as Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-592-7
• 1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso. Reissued as No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family in 2000. ISBN 978-1-859-84736-7
• 2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso. ISBN 1-85984-631-9
• 2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03033-5
• 2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books ISBN 0-465-03050-5. (US edition)

• as UK edition: Orwell's Victory, Allen Lane/Penguin Press. ISBN 0-713-99-584-X

• 2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4
• 2006 Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World/Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84354-513-6
• 2007 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 / Published in the UK as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion. Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6
• 2010 Hitch-22 Some Confessions and Contradictions: A Memoir . Hachette Book Group. ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9 (published by Allen and Unwin in Australia in May 2010 with the shorter title: Hitch-22. A Memoir.) ISBN 978-1-74175-962-4
• 2012 Mortality. Atlantic. ISBN 978-1-4555-0275-2

Pamphlets

• 1971 Karl Marx and The Paris Commune. Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd. ISBN 0283484829
• 1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish. Chatto & Windus, 1990.
• 1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Verso.
• 2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume Books. Originally released as Regime Change (Penguin).
• 2011 The Enemy. Amazon Digital Services.

Essays

• 1988 Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang (US)/Chatto and Windus (UK).
• 1993 For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Verso, ISBN 0-86091-435-6
• 2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso
• 2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-580-3
• 2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve. UK edition as Arguably: Selected Prose. Atlantic.
• 2015 And Yet... Essays, Simon & Schuster.
• 2021 A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-838956-00-4
• 2024 A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, Twelve, ISBN 978-1538757659

Collaborations

• 1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell, ISBN 0-304-29768-2
• 1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4. Reissued, 2001.
• 1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books.
• 1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso.
• 2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio.
• 2019 The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution, (with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Stephen Fry). Bantam Press.

Co-author or co-editor

• 2002 Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (co-editor, with Christopher Caldwell).
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer. Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6 (editor)
• 2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson). Canon Press, ISBN 1-59128-053-2.
• 2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (co-author, with other contributions edited by Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman ). New York University Press.
• 2010 The Best American Essays 2010 (co-editor with Robert Atwan). Mariner Books.
• 2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it Resolved, Religion is a Force of Good in the World (co-author with Tony Blair). House of Anansi Press.

Contributor

• 2005 Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation, Michael Cromartie (editor). Rowman & Littlefield.
• 2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-24555-5
• 2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism, Windsor Mann (editor). Da Capo Press.