Selected works:

• THE CHAPMAN OF RHYMES, 1918
• THE BALCONNINNY, AND OTHER ESSAYS, 1921
• BRIEF DIVERSIONS, 1922
• PAPERS FROM LILLIPUT, 1922
• I FOR ONE, 1923
• FIGURES IN MODERN LITERATURE, 1924
• THE ENGLISH COMIC CHARACTERS, 1925
• ed.: ESSAYIST PAST AND PRESENT, 1925
• ed.: FOOLS AND PHILOSOPHERS, 1925
• J.B. PRIESTLEY, 1926
• (ESSAYS OF TODAY AND YESTERDAY); GEORGE MEREDITH, 1926
• (ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS); TALKING: AN ESSAY, 1926
• ed.: THE BOOK OF BODLEY HEAD VERSE, 1926
• (THE PLEASURES OF LIFE SERIES); OPEN HOUSE, 1927
• THOMAS LOVE PEACOC, 1927
• THE ENGLISH NOVEL, 1927
• ADAM IN MOONSHINE, 1927
• BENIGHTED, 1927 - Yön yllättämät - film: 1963, The Old Dark House, dir. by William Castle, starring Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott
• APES AND ANGELS, 1928
• TOO MANY PEOPLE, 1928
• ENGLISH HUMOUR, 1929
• THE GOOD COMPANIONS, 1929 - Hyvät toverukset - films: 1933, dir. by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne; 1957, dir. by J.Lee Thompson, starring Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, Janette Scott
• FARTHING HALL, 1929 (with H. Walpole)
• ANGEL PAVEMENT, 1930
• FARAWAY, 1932
• DANGEROUS CORNER, 1932 - film 1935, dir. by Phil Rosen, starring Virginia Bruce, Conrad Nagel, Melvyn Douglas
• (THE ENGLISH HERITAGE SERIES); SELF-SELECTED ESSAYS, 1932
• ENGLISH JOURNEY, 1933
• ALBERT GOEST THROUGH, 1933
• I'LL TELL YOU EVERYTHING, 1933
• LABURNUM GROVE, 1933 - film: 1936, dir. by Carol Reed, starring Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper
• ROUNDABOUT, 1933 - Ympäri käydään, yhteen tullaan
• WONDER HERO, 1933
• EDEN END, 1934
• CORNELIUS, 1935
• DUET IN FLOODLIGHT, 1935
• THE GOOD COMPANIONS, 1935 (play adaptation)
• BEES ON THE BOAT, 1936
• SPRING TIDE, 1936 (as Peter Goldsmith)
• THEY WALK IN THE CITY, 1936
• TIME AND THE CONWAYS, 1937 - film: 1962, Die Glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds, dir. by John Olden, Wolfgang Staudte, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy, Dietmar Schönherr, Brigitte Grothum
• I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, 1937
• MIDNIGHT ON THE DESERT, 1937
• MYSTERY AT GREENFINGERS, 1937
• PEOPLE AT SEA, 1937
• TIME AND THE CONWAYS, 1937
• I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, 1938
• WHEN WE ARE MARRIED, 1938 - films: 1938, dir. by Philip Dorté; 1942, dir. by Lance Comfort, starring Sydney Howard, Raymond Huntley, Olga Lindo
• THE DOOMSDAY MEN, 1938
• JOHSON OVER JORDAN, 1939
• RAIN UPON GODSHILL, 1939
• ed.: OUR NATION'W HERITAGE, 1939
• script: JAMAICA INN, based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel - film: 1939, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock, screen adaptation Sidney Gillant, Joan Harrison, J.B. Priestley
• BRITAIN SPEAKS, 1940
• OUT OF THE PEOPLE, 1941
• JOHNSON OVER JORDAN, 1941 - play: music by Benjamen Britten, choreocraphy by Anthony Tudor
• BRITAIN AT WAR, 1942
• BLACK-OUT IN GRETLEY, 1942
• BRITISH WOMEN GO TO WAR, 1943
• DESERT HIGHWAY, 1944
• THEY CAME TO A CITY, 1944
• HOW THEY ARE AT HOME?, 1944
• THREE MEN IN NEW SUITS, 1945 - Kolme miestä uusissa vaatteissa
• AN INSPECTOR CALLS, 1946 - Tarkastaja tulee - film: 1954, dir. by Guy Hamilton, starring Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham, Brian Worth
• EVER SINCE PARADISE, 1946
• BRIGHT DAY, 1946
• RUSSIAN JOURNEY, 1946
• EVER SINCE PARADISE, 1946
• AN INSPECTOR CALLS, 1947
• THE LONG MIRROR, 1947
• MUSIC AT NIGHT, 1947
• THE ROSE AND CROWN, 1947
• THE ARTS UNDER SOCIALISM, 1947
• THEATRE OUTLOOK, 1947
• JENNY VILLIERS, 1947
• THE GOLDEN FLEECE, 1948
• THE HIGH TOBY, 1948
• THE LINDEN TREE, 1948
• HOME IS TOMORROW, 1949
• THE OLYMPIANS, 1949
• DELIGHT, 1949
• GOING UP, 1950
• SUMMER DAY'S DREAM, 1950
• BRIGHT SHADOW, 1950
• SUMMER DAY'S DREAM, 1950 (with J. Hawkes)
• FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE, 1951
• THE PRIESTLEY COMPANION, 1951
• WRITINGS OF J.B. PRIESTLEY, 1951
• DRAGON'S MOUTH, 1952
• MOTHER'S DAY, 1953
• PRIVATE ROOMS, 1953
• TREASURE ON PELICAN, 1953
• TRY IT AGAIN, 1953
• THE OTHER PLACE, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE SAME SORT, 1953
• LOW NOTES ON A HIGH LEVEL, 1954
• THE MAGICIANS, 1954
• A GLASS OF BITTER, 1954
• JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW, 1955 (with J. Hawkes)
• ALL ABOUT OURSELVES, 1956
• THE SCANDALOUS AFFAIR OF MR. KETTLE AND MRS. MOON, 956
• THE ART OF THE DRAMATIST, 1957
• TYHOUGHT IN THE WILDERNESS, 1957
• TOPSIDE, 1958
• THE GLASS CAGE, 1958
• THE STORY OF THEATRE, 1959
• LITERATURE AND WESTERN MAN, 1960
• ed.: FOUR ENGLISH NOVELS, 1960 (with O.B. Davis)
• ed.: FOUR ENGLISH BIOGRAPHIES, 1960 (with O.B. Davis)
• WILLIAM HAZLITT, 1960
• CHARLES DICKENS, 1961
• SATURN OVER THE WATER... , 1961
• THE THIRTY-FIRST OF JUNE, 1961
• THE SHAPES OF SLEEP, 1962
• MARGIN RELEASED, 1962
• ed.: ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1963
• SIR MICHAEL AND SIR GEORGE, 1964
• MAN AND TIME, 1964
• A SEVERAD HEAD, 1964 (dramatization of novel by I.Murdoch)
• LOST EMPIRES, 1965
• THE MOMENTS, AND OTHER PIECES, 1966
• SALT IS LEAVING, 1966
• IT'S AN OLD COUNTRY, 1967
• THE WORLD OF J.B. PRIESTLEY, 1967
• OUT OF TOWN, 1968
• THE IMAGE MEN, 1968
• ALL ENGLAND LISTENED, 1968
• ESSAYS OF FIVE DECADES, 1968
• TRUMPETS OVER THE SEA, 1968
• THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE AND HIS REGENCY, 1811-1820, 1969
• ANTON CHEKHOV, 1970
• THE EDWARDIANS, 1970
• SNOGGLE, 1971
• OVER THE LONG HIGH WALL, 1972
• VICTORIA'S HEYDAY, 1972
• THE ENGLISH, 1973
• OUTCRIES AND ASIDES, 1974
• A VISIT TO NEW ZELAND, 1974
• THE CARFITT CRISIS AND TWO OTHER STORIES, 1975
• PARTICULAR PLEASURES, 1975
• FOUND, LOST, FOUND; OR THE ENGLISH WAY OF LIFE, 1976
• INSTEAD OF THE TREES,1977
• SEEING STRATFORD, 1982
• MUSICAL DELIGHTS, 1984