Primary

Remedy is None Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966

A Gift from Nessus Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968

The Longships in Harbour: Poems Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970

Landscapes and Figures (eight etchings by Norman Ackroyd with poems by William McIlvanney) Circle Press Publications, 1973

Docherty Allen & Unwin, 1975

Laidlaw Hodder & Stoughton, 1977

The Papers of Tony Veitch Hodder & Stoughton, 1983

These Words: Weddings and After - an essay and poetry Mainstream, 1984

The Big Man Hodder & Stoughton, 1985

In Through the Head Mainstream, 1988

Walking Wounded Hodder & Stoughton, 1989

Shades of Grey - Glasgow 1956-1987
William McIlvanney, Oscar Marzaroli (Photographer) Mainstream Publishing 1990

Strange Loyalties Hodder & Stoughton, 1991

Surviving the Shipwreck Mainstream, 1991

The Kiln Sceptre, 1996

Secondary

McIlvanney's "Laidlaw" (Scotnotes S.)
Beth Dickson 1998) Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Researching McIlvanney: A Critical and Bibliographic Introduction (Scottish Studies International Publications of the Scottish Studies Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz in Germersheim)
~Craig W. McLuckie, Peter Lang 1999

Scottish Writers Talking: George Mackay Brown, Jessie Kesson, Norman MacCaig, William McIlvanney, David Toulmin (edited by Isobel Murray) Tuckwell Press, 1996