- (1953) Novel: "The Alcoholics".
- (1952) Novel: "The Killer Inside Me" (filmed as The Killer Inside Me (1976), The Killer Inside Me (2010)).
- (1967) Novel: "South of Heaven".
- (1965) Novel: "Texas By the Tail"
- (1957) Novel: "The Kill-Off" (filmed as The Kill-Off (1989)).
- (1963) Novel: "The Grifters" (filmed as The Grifters (1990)).
- (1955) Novel: "After Dark My Sweet" (filmed as After Dark, My Sweet (1990))
- (1953) Novel: "Savage Night"
- (1964) Novel: "Pop. 1280" (filmed as Clean Slate (1981)).
- (1959) Novel: "The Getaway" (filmed as The Getaway (1994), The Getaway (1972)).
- (1957) Novel: "Wild Town"
- (1954) Novel: "A Hell of a Woman" (filmed as Serie Noire (1979)).
- (1954) Novel: "A Swell-Looking Babe" (filmed as Hit Me (1996)).
- (February 1929) Short Story (as James Dillon): "Oil Field Vignettes"
- (June 1929) Short Story: "Thieves of the Field"
- (1930) Short Story: "Character at Iraan"
- (February 1931) Short Story: "Chink"
- (March 1931) Short Story: "Close Shave"
- (April 1931) Short Story: "Bo'ger"
- (1951) Novel: "The Transgressors".
- (1954) Novel: "Roughneck".
- (1972) Novel: "Child of Rage".
- (1973) Novel: "King Blood".
- (1954) Novel: "The Golden Gizmo".
- (1949) Novel: "Nothing More Than Murder".
- (1970) Novel: "Nothing But a Man".
- (1953) Novel: "Recoil".
- (1954) Novel: "The Criminal".
- (1942) Novel: "Now and On Earth".
- (1952) Novel: "Cropper's Cabin".
- (1988) Collection: "Fireworks: The Lost Novels of Jim Thompson".
- (1967) Novel: "Ironside". NOTE: Novelization of the TV series Ironside (1967).
- (1953) Novel: "Bad Boy".
- (1954) Novel: "The Nothing Man".
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