Novels and novellas written in Russian:
- ✔ (1926) Mashen'ka (Машенька); English translation: Mary (1970)
- ✔ (1928) Korol' Dama Valet (Король, дама, валет); English translation: King, Queen, Knave (1968)
- (1930) Zashchita Luzhina (Защита Лужина); English translation: The Luzhin Defense or The Defense (1964)
- (1930) The Eye (Соглядатай (The Eye)), novella; first publication as a book 1938; English translation: The Eye (1965)
- ✔ (1932) Podvig (Подвиг (Deed)); English translation: Glory (1971)
- ✔ (1933) Kamera Obskura (Камера Обскура); English translations: Camera Obscura (1936), Laughter in the Dark (1938)
- ✔ (1934) Otchayanie (Отчаяние); English translation: Despair (1937, 1965)
- ✔ (1936) Priglasheniye na kazn' (Приглашение на казнь (Invitation to an execution)); English translation: Invitation to a Beheading (1959)
- ✔ (1938) Dar (Дар); English translation: The Gift (1963)
- ✔ Volshebnik (Волшебник); English translation: The Enchanter (1985)
Novels written in English:
- ✔ (1941) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
- ✔ (1947) Bend Sinister
- ✔ (1955) Lolita, self-translated into Russian (1965) [read in English and Polish only]
- ✔ (1957) Pnin
- ✔ (1962) Pale Fire [well, I tried in two languages but I just cannot finish it]
- ✔ (1969) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle [read in English and Polish, fragments in French]
- ✔ (1972) Transparent Things [English > Polish]
- ✔ (1974) Look at the Harlequins!
- ✔ (2009) The Original of Laura
Short story collections:
- (1930) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1938) Sogliadatai ("The Eye"). Thirteen short stories, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1947) Nine Stories
- (1956) Vesna v Fial'te i drugie rasskazy ("Spring in Fialta and other stories")
- ✔ (1958) Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Also reprinted as Spring in Fialta and First Love and Other Stories.)
- (1966) Nabokov's Quartet
- (1968) Nabokov's Congeries; reprinted as The Portable Nabokov (1971)
- (1973) A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
- (1975) Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
- (1976) Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
- ✔ (1995) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (alternative title The Collected Stories) -- complete collection of all short stories
Uncollected short stories:
- (1948) "Colette". The New Yorker, July 31, 1948
- (2005) "The Word". The New Yorker, December 6, 2005
- (2008) "Natasha". The New Yorker, June 9 & 16, 2008
Drama:
- (1938) Izobretenie Val'sa (The Waltz Invention); English translation The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts (1966)
- The Tragedy of Mister Morn (2012): English translation of a Russian-language play written 1923–24, publicly read 1924, published in a journal 1997, independently published 2008
- (1974) Lolita: A Screenplay (Despite the credits given in the earlier film version, this was not used.)
- (1984) The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
Poetry:
- (1916) Stikhi ("Poems"). Sixty-eight poems in Russian. [went through it but it doesn't really count as reading, right?]
- (1918) Al'manakh: Dva Puti (An Almanac: Two Paths"). Twelve poems by Nabokov and eight by Andrei Balashov, in Russian.
- (1922) Grozd ("The Cluster"). Thirty-six poems in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1923) Gornii Put' ("The Empyrean Path"). One hundred and twenty-eight poems in Russian, by "Vl. Sirin".
- (1929) Vozvrashchenie Chorba ("The Return of Chorb"). Fifteen short stories and twenty-four poems, in Russian, by "V. Sirin".
- (1952) Stikhotvoreniia 1929–1951 ("Poems 1929–1951") Fifteen poems in Russian.
- (1959) Poems. The contents were later incorporated within Poems and Problems.
- (1969) Poems and Problems (a collection of poetry and chess problems). The contents were later incorporated within Selected Poems.
- (1979) Stikhi ("Poems"). Two hundred and twenty-two poems in Russian.
- (2012) Selected Poems