London (1738)

Plan of A Dictionary (1747). Addressed to Lord Chesterfield

The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)

The Rambler (1750-52)

A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

The Idler (1758-60)

The Plays of Shakespeare (1765)

The Lives of the Poets (1779-81)

The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell (1791)