The Pit Dragon Trilogy
- Dragon's Blood (1982)
- Heart's Blood (1984)
- A Sending of Dragons (1987)
- Dragon's Heart (2009)
Selected novels and books
(She has written over 280)
- The Bird of Time (illustrated by Mercer Mayer) (1971)
- The Simple Prince (illustrated by Jack Kent) (1978)
- The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
- Children of the Wolf (1984)
- The Stone Silenus (1984)
- "Cards of Grief" (1985, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature)
- Sister Light, Sister Dark (1989, Nebula Award finalist)
- The Dragon's Boy (1990)
- White Jenna (1990, Nebula Award finalist)
- Greyling (1991, picture book)
- Wings (1991, picture book)
- Wizard's Hall (1991)
- Briar Rose (1992, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Nebula Award finalist)
- The One Armed Queen (1998)
- Armageddon Summer (1998, with Bruce Coville, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers)
- Queen's Own Fool (2000, with Robert J. Harris)
- Girl in a Cage (2002, with Robert J. Harris)
- Sword of the Rightful King (2003, ALA Best Books 2004, ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004, ALA Top 10 Fantasy Books for Youth 2004)
- Prince Across the Water (2004, with Robert J. Harris)
- The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin (2004)
- Pay the Piper: a rock and roll fairy tale (2005, with Adam Stemple)
Selected novellas and novelettes
- "The Devil's Arithmetic" (1988 novella, Nebula Award finalist; 1999, made into a movie starring Kirsten Dunst, Mimi Rogers and Brittany Murphy)
- "Lost Girls" (1998 novelette, Nebula Award winner)
Selected short stories
- "Boris Chernevsky's Hands" in Hecate's Cauldron (1982, edited by Susan Schwartz)
- "Angelica" in 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories (1985, edited by Asimov, Greenberg and Carr)
- "The Ballad of the Quick Levars" in Liavek: The Players of Luck (1986, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
- "Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni" in Arabesques (1988, edited by Susan Schwartz)
- "The True Tale of Count Dashif's Demise" in Liavek: Festival Week (1990, edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly)
- "Blood Sister" in Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence (1995, edited by Marion Dane Bauer)
- "Sister Emily's Lightship" in Starlight 1 (1996, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden; 1997 Nebula Award winner)
Selected poems
- "Tintagel Morning: Song" (Asimov's Science Fiction, v.14 #4, April 1990)
- "Angels Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly" (Asimov's Science Fiction, v.15 #14, No.179, December 1991) (1991 Asimov's Readers' Award, poetry)
- "Will" (Broadside, Midsummer Night's Press; The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1992) (1993 Rhysling Award winner)
- "Lies" (Paradox, Issue 8, Winter 2005-2006)
- "War Memorial: Edinburgh" (Paradox, Issue 8, Winter 2005-2006)
- "Fife Map" (Paradox, Issue 9, Summer 2006)
- "Suzy and Leah"
Short story anthologies edited by Jane Yolen
- Werewolves (1988, with Martin H. Greenberg)
- Xanadu (1992, with Martin H. Greenberg)
- Xanadu 2 (1993, with Martin H. Greenberg)
- Xanadu 3 (1994, with Martin H. Greenberg)
- 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers (1994, with Connie Willis and Anne McCaffrey)
- Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (2005, with Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
Folklore collection edited by Jane Yolen
- Favorite Folktales From Around the World (winner of the World Fantasy Award)