Anna Kavan Bibliography
Fiction
| As Helen Ferguson | |
| 1929 | A Charmed Circle |
| 1930 | The Dark Sisters |
| 1930 | Let Me Alone |
| 1935 | A Stranger Still |
| 1936 | Goose Cross |
| 1937 | Rich Get Rich |
| As Anna Kavan | |
| 1940 | Asylum Piece (Stories) |
| 1941 | Change the Name |
| 1945 | I Am Lazarus (Stories) |
| 1948 | Sleep Has His House |
| 1949 | The Horse's Tale (with K T Bluth) |
| 1956 | A Scarcity of Love |
| 1957 | Eagle's Nest |
| 1958 | A Bright Green Field (Stories) |
| 1963 | Who Are You? |
| 1967 | Ice |
| Posthumous | |
| 1970 | Julia and the Bazooka (Stories) |
| 1975 | My Soul in China (Novella & Stories) |
| 1994 | Mercury |
| 1995 | The Parson |
| 2007 | Guilty |
| 2009 | Anna Kavan's New Zealand, ed. by Jennifer Sturm (Stories) |
Journalism
| 1943 | 'New Zealand: Answer to an Inquiry', Horizon 45, Sept 1943 |
| 1944 | 'The Case of Bill Williams', Horizon 50, Feb 1944 |
| 1944 | 'Reviews', Horizon 50, Feb 1944 |
| 1944 | 'Reviews', Horizon 52, April 1944 |
| 1944 | 'Reviews', Horizon 59, Nov 1944 |
| 1945 | 'Reviews', Horizon 62, Feb 1945 |
| 1945 | 'Reviews', Horizon 67, July 1945 |
| 1946 | 'Back to Victoria: Selected Notices', Horizon 73, Jan 1946 |
Secondary Sources
Biographies
| Callard, David, The Case of Anna Kavan: A Biography, (London: Peter Owen, 1992) |
| Reed, Jeremy, A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan, (London: Peter Owen, 2006) |
| Sturm, Jennifer, ed. Anna Kavan's New Zealand: A Pacific Interlude in a Turbulent Life, (Auckland: Vintage, Random House New Zealand, 2009) |
Major Archives
The Anna Kavan Archive at the McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa holds the largest collection of Kavan's personal papers, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence and paintings.
The Peter Owen Archives at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas contain correspondence between Kavan and her publisher Peter Owen and related material. Other archives in the collection contain letters from Kavan to writers and publishers including the William A Bradley Literary Agency, Francis Henry King, Scorpion Press, John Lehman, Kay Dick and Gerald Hamilton.
The Rhys Davis Papers in the National Library of Wales contains the papers of Kavan's close friend and literary executor Rhys Davies including a small collection of letters from Kavan and papers relating to posthumous publication.
The Walter Ian Hamilton Papers in the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington contain letters from Kavan to Hamilton between 1940 and 1955.
Other archives containing Kavan's correspondence include the Jonathan Cape files in the Random House Archives at the University of Reading and the Koestler Archive in Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections. A small collection of Karl Theodor Bluth's papers are housed in the Deutsches Literatur Archiv in Marbach, Germany.