* Novels
Our Government (Knopf, 1930)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) 
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Double Indemnity (1936) 이중보상
Serenade (1937)
The Butterfly (1938)
The Embezzler (1940)
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Past All Dishonor (1946)
The Moth (1948)
Sinful Woman (1948)
Everybody Does It (1949)
Jealous Woman (1950)
Galatea (1953)
The Root of His Evil (1954)
Mignon (1962)
The Magician's Wife (1965)
Rainbow's End (1975)
The Institute (1976)
Cloud Nine (1984)
The Enchanted Isle (1985)
* Collections
Three Of A Kind (omnibus) (1943)
Career in C Major: And Other Fiction (1947)
The Baby in the Icebox (1981)
The Five Great Novels of James M Cain (1981)
Jealous Woman / Sinful Woman (omnibus) (1992)
* Non fiction
Sixty Years of Journalism (1986)
* Short Fiction
"Pastorale" (American Mercury, March 1928)
"The Taking of Montfaucon" (American Mercury, June 1929)
"Auld Lang Syne" (The New Yorker, 20 December 1930)
"Gridiron Soliloquies" (The New Yorker, 21 December 1931)
"The Baby in the Icebox" (American Mercury, January 1933)
"Come-back" (Redbook, June 1934)
"Double Indemnity" (serialized in Liberty, 1936)
"Dead Man" (American Mercury, March 1936)
"Hip, Hip, the Hippo" (Redbook, March 1936)
"The Birthday Party" (Ladies' Home Journal, May 1936)
"Brush Fire" (Liberty, 5 December 1936)
"Coal Black" (Liberty, 3 April 1937)
"Everything But the Truth" (Liberty, 17 July 1937)
"Two Can Sing" a.k.a. "Career in C Major" (American, April 1938)
"The Girl in the Storm" (Liberty, 6 January 1940)
"Money and the Woman" (serialized in Liberty, 1940)
"Pay-Off Girl" (Esquire, August 1952)
"Cigarette Girl" (Manhunt, May 1953) 
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"Two O'Clock Blonde" (Manhunt, August 1953)
"Death on the Beach" (Jack London's Adventure Magazine, October 1958)
"The Visitor" (Esquire, September 1961)