Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư
Ngô Sĩ Liên's major work is the historical record "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư", a 15-volume ("quyển") book that he compiled in revising "Đại Việt sử ký" of Lê Văn Hưu and "Đại Việt sử ký tục biên" of Phan Phu Tiên. During the reign of Lê Thánh Tông, the emperor had commissioned his historians to write an official chronicle for the dynasty in the Quang Thuận period (1460–1469), this work was later lost but after Thánh Tông's order, Ngô Sĩ Liên, a member of the board of compilation, wrote his own version in 1479 which was finally resulted in the "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư". The fact that Ngô Sĩ Liên decided to write his own national history despite the existence of the official records might be explained by Ngô Sĩ Liên's intention of expressing his opinions in the book just as Lê Văn Hưu did with his "Đại Việt sử ký" instead of satisfying with only an objective narration of the official records. Some reasoned that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled the "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư" because he felt the need to promote Cofucian ideology in the Lê Dynasty.