Carol's Shield's works include

Poetry
• Others. Ottawa: Borealis, 1972.
• Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis, 1974.
• Coming to Canada. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992.

Novels

• Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
• The Box Garden. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
• Happenstance. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980.
• A Fairly Conventional Woman. MacMillan, 1982.
• Various Miracles. Stoddart, 1985. (short stories)
• Swann: A Mystery. Stoddart, 1987.
• The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989. (short stories)
• A Celibate Season. Carol Shields and Blanche Howard. Coteau, 1991.
• Republic of Love. Random House, 1992.
• The Stone Diaries. Random House, 1993.
• Larry's Party. Random House, 1997.
• Dressing Up For The Carnival. Random House, 2000. (short stories)
• Unless. 2002.
• Collected Stories. Random House, 2003. (short stories)

Criticism and Biography
• Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976.
• Jane Austen. Penguin/Viking, 2001.
• Dropped Threads: What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson. Random House, 2001.
• Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson,. Random House, 2003.

Plays
• Departures and Arrivals. Blizzard, 1990.
• Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families. Carol Shields and Catherine Shields. Blizzard, 1993.
• Anniversary. Carol Shields and Dave Williamson. Blizzard, 1998.
• Thirteen Hands and Other Plays. Vintage, 2001.