Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 (tõlge itaalia keelde 1993)
Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts (Teubner Studienbücher). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973 (tõlge uuskreeka keelde 1989, itaalia keelde 1991, ungari keelde 1999)
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 14). Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 1974
Immortal Helen: an inaugural lecture delivered on 30 April 1975. London: Bedford College, 1975. ISBN 0-900145-30-7
The Orphic Poems. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. ISBN 0-19-814854-2 (tõlge itaalia keelde 1993)
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. ISBN 0-19-814034-7
Introduction to Greek Metre. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. ISBN 0-19-872132-3
Studies in Aeschylus (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 1). Stuttgart: Teubner 1990. ISBN 3-519-07450-8
Ancient Greek Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. ISBN 0-19-814897-6 (tõlge uuskreeka keelde 1999)
Die griechische Dichterin: Bild und Rolle (Lectio Teubneriana 5). Stuttgart, Leipzig: Teubner, 1996. ISBN 3-519-07554-7
The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-815042-3
Studies in the text and transmission of the Iliad. München: Saur, 2001. ISBN 3-598-73005-5
Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9
The Making of the Iliad: Disquisition and Analytical Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-959007-0
Old Avestan syntax and stylistics: with an edition of the texts (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen N.F. 13). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. ISBN 978-3-11-025308-5
Hellenica: selected papers on Greek literature and thought. Vol. 1: Epic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-960501-9
Hellenica: selected papers on Greek literature and thought. Vol. 2: Lyric and drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-960502-6
Hesiod, Theogony, ed. with prolegomena and commentary by M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966
Fragmenta Hesiodea, ed. R. Merkelbach et M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967
Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 1: Archilochus. Hipponax. Theognidea, ed. M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 (parandatud väljaanne 1989)
Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2: Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota, ed. M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972 (parandatud väljaanne 1992)
Sing me, goddess. Being the first recitation of Homer's Iliad, translated by Martin West. London: Duckworth, 1971. ISBN 0-7156-0595-X
Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica, ed. M. L. West (Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 192). Berlin: De Gruyter, 1978
Hesiod, Works and Days, ed. with prolegomena and commentary by M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978
Delectus ex Iambis et Elegis Graecis, ed. M. L. West. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. ISBN 0-19-814589-6
Euripides, Orestes, ed. with transl. and commentary by M. L. West. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1987. ISBN 0-85668-310-8
Hesiod, Theogony, and Works and Days, transl. and with an introduction by M. L. West. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-281788-4
Aeschyli tragoediae cum incerti poetae Prometheo, recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990. ISBN 3-519-01013-5
Greek Lyric Poetry. The poems and fragments of the Greek iambic, elegiac, and melic poets (excluding Pindar and Bacchylides) down to 450 B.C.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-282360-4 (värsstõlge)
Homeri Ilias. Volumen prius rhapsodias I-XII continens, recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Stuttgart, Leipzig: Teubner, 1998. ISBN 3-519-01431-9
Homeri Ilias. Volumen alterum rhapsodias XIII-XXIV continens, recensuit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig, München: Saur, 2000
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer, edited and translated by Martin L. West. (Loeb Classical Library 496). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-99606-2
Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC, edited and translated by Martin L. West (Loeb Classical Library 497). London, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-99605-4