List of works

Novels

Decline and Fall (1928): satire of the upper classes and social climbers
Vile Bodies (1930): satire; adapted to the screen by Stephen Fry as Bright Young Things (2003).
Black Mischief (1932): satire on Haile Selassie's efforts to modernise Abyssinia (Waugh was deeply critical of modernity and notions of rational progress)
A Handful of Dust (1934): subtle critique of civilization set in English country house and Dutch Guyana.
Scoop (1938): describes the rush of war reporters to a thinly disguised Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). A Chicago theatre company's 1996 playbill cited it as the inspiration for Tom Stoppard's play Night and Day.
Put Out More Flags (1942): satire of the phony war and wartime sillinesses
Brideshead Revisited (subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) (1945): details the spiritual lives behind the facades of an aristocratic family and their friend, the protagonist. Filmed as a lauded ITV drama (1981) and as a movie (2008) starring Matthew Goode.
The Loved One (1947) (subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy): describes the excesses of a Californian funeral business.
Helena (1950): historical fiction about the Empress Helena and the founding of pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land; also a Catholic apologetic about the True Cross.
Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (1953): a satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain, following the life of an arsonist released from prison.
Sword of Honour Trilogy

Travel writing

Labels (1930): An account of Waugh's cruise around the Mediterranean.
Remote People (1931): Waugh's journey to Addis Ababa at the time of the coronation of Haile Selassie.
Ninety-Two Days (1934): Waugh's journey through British Guiana.
Waugh In Abyssinia (1936): Waugh's second travel book in Africa.
Robbery Under Law (1939): Waugh's travels around Mexico in 1938.
When The Going Was Good (1946): A selection of Waugh's earlier travel works.
A Tourist In Africa (1960).

Biography

Autobiography and memoirs

Waugh in Abyssinia (1936), a journalistic account of the war and what led up to it
A Little Learning (1964)