Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects, Repeater, 2024

Transitional Objects – Photographs of Poland, the modernist, 2023

Artificial Islands, Repeater, 2022. Winner of both Best Book and Best Monograph, Architectural Book Awards, 2023

Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer, Penguin, 2022

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, Verso, 2021

Red Metropolis, Repeater 2020. Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award, 2021

The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, Repeater, 2018

Trans-Europe Express, Penguin, 2018 (translations: Italian, Chinese)

The Chaplin Machine, Pluto Press, 2016

The Ministry of Nostalgia, Verso 2016 (translation: Japanese)

Landscapes of Communism, Penguin, 2015 (translation: Spanish. Published in the US by The New Press)

A New Kind of Bleak, Verso, 2012

Across the Plaza, Strelka, 2012 (translation: Russian)

Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp, Zer0, 2011 (translation: German)

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Verso, 2010. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2011

Militant Modernism, Zer0, 2009 (translations: Czech, Russian, Turkish)

• Collections

Ukrainian Postcards, a fundraising ebook with all proceeds going to Artists at Risk and the CWU Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine, Repeater, 2022

Baltijas Atklātnes, Orbita, 2021 (in Latvian translation)

• As Editor

The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs, Open City, 2020

Nairn’s Towns, Notting Hill Editions, 2013

• Collaborations

Soviet Metro Stations, with photographer Christopher Herwig, Fuel, 2019

Brutalust – Celebrating Post-War Southampton, catalogue for photography exhibition at K6 Gallery, 2016

Broadmead, accompanying Stanley Donwood’s film of the same name, Department of Small Works, 2016

• Maps

Zaha Hadid, a map and walking guide for Open City’s Pocket London, 2023

Thamesmead, a map and walking guide for Open City’s Pocket London, 2021