Novels

• Fly Away Peter
• The Great World
• Harland's Half Acre
• Johnno
• An Imaginary Life
• Ransom
• Remembering Babylon

Short Stories

• Dream stuff
• Modern Short Stories edited by Philip Gardner and Nat Newmark. This collection includes David Malouf's The Empty Lunch-Tin. The story is accompanied by activities and detailed notes to help students.

A study of David Malouf's short story fiction can be found in Australian short fiction: a history by Bruce Bennett; pp.248-262.

Non-Fiction

Autobiography

• 12 Edmondstone Street

Collected works

• Lives and observations: a century of Australian non-fiction edited by Deb McPherson. In the chapter devoted to 'Our Environment and Landscape" an extract Malouf's 12 Edmondstone Street', is studied along with work by Jill Ker Conway, Judith Wallace, Sir Arthur Streeton's letters to Tom Roberts and C.E.W. Bean.
• The Australian Long Story edited by Mandy Sayer. This collection includes The Valley of Lagoons by David Malouf.

Essays

• A First place: Book 1
• The Writing life: Book 2
• Being there: Book 3

Poetry

• An Open book
• The Best Australian poems 2003. This selection includes the following poems by David Malouf. The Green tavern, On the Road, Last words of the Emperor Hadrian, The Spin: Amberley, 1951 - Like our first paintbox and Afterword.
• Earth hour

Criticism and interpretation

• David Malouf by Ivor Indyk, from the Oxford Australian writers series
• David Malouf: a celebration compiled by Ivor Indyk
• David Malouf: Johnno, short stories, poems, essays and interview, edited by James Tulip
• Facing writers: Australia's leading writers talk with Dagmar Strauss
• A History of Australian literature by Ken Goodwin. Chapter 9. Mid-century directions.
• Writers in Action: the Writer's Choice evenings edited by Gerry Turcotte. David Malouf's 12 Edmondstone Street, pp.43-62

Study notes

• Fly Away Peter
• Remembering Babylon