- In Defence of the Novel – 1936
- Not Counting Niggers, Adelphi, July 1939
- Charles Dickens – 1939
- Inside the Whale – 1940
- The Lion and the Unicorn – 1940
- Wells, Hitler and the World State – 1941
- The Art of Donald McGill – 1941
- Rudyard Kipling - 1942
- Looking back on the Spanish War - 1942
- Arthur Koestler - 1944
- The English People, written May 1944
- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali – written June 1944
- Antisemitism in Britain – 1945
- In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Notes on Nationalism - 1945
- Good Bad Books – 1945
- The Sporting Spirit - 1945
- Why I write – 1946
- The Prevention of Literature – 1946
- Politics and the English Language – 1946
- Politics vs Literature [on Swift] – 1946
- How the Poor Die - 1946
- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad – 1946
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool - 1947
- Writers and Leviathan – 1948
- George Gissing, May-June 1948, published 1960
- Such, such Were the Joys, Partisan Review, September-October 1952 [U.S.]
- As I Please, Tribune, 21 January 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 28 January 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 4 February 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 3 March 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 17 March 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 24 March 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 21 April 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 28 April 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 30 June 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 21 July 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 18 August 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 1 September 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 15 September 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 13 October 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 27 October 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 17 November 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 1 December 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 8 December 1944
- As I Please, Tribune, 21 December 1944
- A New Year Message, Tribune, 5 January 1945
- As I Please, Tribune, 2 February 1945
- As I Please, Tribune, 22 November 1946
- As I Please, Tribune, 29 November 1946
- As I Please, Tribune, 6 December 1946
- As I Please, Tribune, 31 January 1947
- Angel Pavement, Adelphi, October 1930
- Assignment in Utopia, New English Weekly, 9 June 1938
- The Sword and the Sickle, Horizon, July 1942
- Pacifism and the War, Partisan Review, September-October 1942
- Poetry London, Oct-Nov 1942
- Literature and the Left, Tribune, 4 June 1943
- Propaganda and Demotic Speech, Persuation, Summer 1944
- Raffles and Mis Blandish, Horizon, October 1944
- You and the Atom Bomb, Tribune, 19 October 1945
- What is Science?, Tribune, 26 October 1945
- Catastrophic Gradualism, Common Wealth Review, November 1945
- Introduction to 'Love of Life and Other Stories' by Jack London, November 1945
- Through a Glass, Rosily, Tribune, 23 November 1945
- Freedom of the Park [Hyde Park], Tribune, 7 December 1945
- The Sporting Spirit, Tribune, 14 December 1945
- 'A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays' by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly, Winter 1945
- Introduction to 'The Position of Peggy Harper' by Leonard Merrick - written late 1945, never published
- Pleasure Spots, Tribune, 11 January 1946
- Review, Tribune, 25 January 1946
- Review of the Cosmological Eye by Arthur Miller, Tribune, 22 February 1946
- Review, The Martyrdom of Man, Tribune, 15 March 1946
- In Front of Your Nose, Tribune, 22 March 1946
- James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution, Polemic, no. 3, May 1946
- The Cost of Letters, Horizon, September 1946
- Two Letters to the Editor of Tribune, 17 January 1947
- Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle, New Leader, 29 March 1947
- Preface to Animal Farm, Ukrainian edition, March 1947
- In Defence of Comrade Zilliacus, written October 1947-January 1948, not published
- For & against novels in the first person
- 15. August 1943
- Laski, 10 October 1943
- Spain in Eclipse, 28 November 1943
- W.H. Davies' Collected Poems, 19. December 1943
- Review of two political books, 16. January 1944
- A Hundred Up, 13 February 1944
- 15. February 1944
- The Edge of the Abyss by Alfred Noyes, 27 February 1944
- Derrick Leon: Tolstoy: His Life and Work, 26 March 1944
- The Hayek: Road to Serfdom & Zilliacus, 9. April 1944
- 23. April 1944
- 7 May 1944
- Eric Gill, 9 June 1944
- 24 December 1944
- 14 January 1945
- 28 January 1945
- Joseph Conrad, 24 June 1945
- 22 July 1945
- BBC, 5 August 1945
- 11 November 1945
- Cyril Connolly, 2 December 1945
- 16 December 1945
- Katharine Mansfield, 13 January 1946
- Colm Brogan, 10 February 1946
- 10 March 1946
- Marx and Russia, 15. February 1948
- Wilde's Utopia, 9 May 1948
- Letter to Leonard Moore, 26 April 1932
- Letter to Eleanor Jaques, 19 October 1932
- Letter to Leonard Moore, 19 November 1932
- Letter to Brenda Salkeld, 10 December 1933
- Letter to Jack Common 16 Apr 1936
- Letter to Geoffrey Gorer 23 May 1936
- Jennie Lee on Orwell's arrival in Barcelona
- Letter to Rayner Heppenstall 31 July 1937
- Letter to Geoffrey Gorer 15 Sep 1937
- Letter to Jack Common, late March 1938
- Letter to Jack Common 26 Dec 1938
- Letter to the Reverend Iorwerth Jones 8 Apr 1941
- Letter to Dorothy Plowman 20 Jun 1941
- Letter to Alex Comfort 11 Jul 1943
- Letter to S. Moos 16 Nov 1943
- Letter to Roy Fuller, 7 March 1944
- Letter to H.J. Willmett, 18 May 1944
- Letter to John Middleton Murry, 5 August 1944
- Letter to John Middleton Murry, 11 August 1944
- [from Paul Potts] 29 Jun 1945, "stinker"
- Letter to Leonard Moore, 5 July 1945
- Letter to the Duchess of Atholl, 15 November 1945
- Letter to G.H. Bantock Late 1945
- Letter to Dorothy Plowman, 19 February 1946
- Letter to Leonard Moore, 23 February 1946
- Letter to Philip Rahv 9 April 1946
- Letter to A.S.F. Gow, 13 April 1946
- Letter to Anne Popham 18 April 1946
- Letter to Stafford Cottman 26 April 1946
- Letter to Rayner Heppenstall 16 June 1946
- Letter to Sally McEwan 5 Jul 1946
- Letter to Sonia Brownell, 12 April 1947
- Letter to Fredric Warburg 31 May 1947
- Letter to Roger Senhouse 22 Oct 1947
- Letter to Julian Symons 2 Jan 1948
- Letter to George Woodcock 4 Jan 1948
- Letter to Julian Symons, 20 April 1948
- Letter to Roger Senhouse, 3 May 1948
- Letter to Julian Symons, 10 May 1948
- Letter to David Astor 9 Oct 1948
- Letter to F.J. Warburg, 22 October 1948
- Letter to David Astor 19 Nov 1948
- Letter to F.J. Warburg, 21 December 1948
- Letter to Richard Rees, 28 January 1949
- Letter to Richard Rees, 8 April 1949
- Letter to the Editor, Wiadomosci 25 Feb 1949
- Letter to Sir Richard Rees 3 Mar 1949
- Letter to Sir Richard Rees 8 Apr 1949
- Letter to Sir Richard Rees 2 May 1949
- Letter to Fredric Warburg 16 May 1949
- Letter to Francis A. Henson, 16 June
