• Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone (Kindle edition), Doubleday, 2020
  • Behind the Moon, City Lights Publishers, 2017
  • Zig Zag Wanderer, Concord Free Press, 2013
  • The Washington Square Ensemble, Audible, Inc, 2013, (audible audio edition)
  • Waiting for the End of the World, Open Road Media, Kindle edition, 2011
  • The Color of Night, Vintage, 2011
  • Zero db: and Other Stories, Open Road Media, 2011, (Kindle edition)
  • Straight Cut, Hard Case Crime, 2011
  • Soldier’s Joy, Open Road Media, 2011, (Kindle edition)
  • Boy with a Coin, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2011, (Kindle edition)
  • Devil’s Dream: a novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, Pantheon, 2009
  • Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore, Crown, 2007
  • Toussaint Louverture: a biography, Pantheon, 2007
  • The Stone That The Builder Refused, Pantheon Books, 2004
  • Anything Goes, Pantheon Books, 2002
  • Master of the Crossroads, Pantheon, 2001
  • Narrative Design: A Writer’s Guide to Structure, W.W. Norton, 1997
  • Ten Indians, Pantheon Books, 1996, 1997
  • New Millennium Writings (with Allen Wier, David Hunter, Lisa Coffman, and Don Williams), New Messenger Books, 1996
  • All Soul’s Rising, Penguin Books, 1995, 1996, (National Book Award, 1996)
  • Craft of Peter Taylor (contributor; editors: Ralph C. Stephens and Lynda B. Salamon), University of Alabama Press, 1995
  • Critical Essays on Peter Taylor (contributor; editor: Hubert H. McAlexander), G.K. Hall (New York), 1993
  • Save Me, Joe Louis, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, 1994
  • Dr. Sleep, Penguin Books, 1991, 1992
  • Wake For the Living (contributor), J.S. Sanders & Co. (Nashville), 1992
  • Jahr des Schweigens (translation of Year of Silence), Munchen: Goldmann Berlag, c. 1991
  • Barking Man and Other Stories, Ticknor and Fields, 1990, 1991
  • Soldier’s Joy, Ticknor and Fields, 1989, 1990
  • To Come Up Grinning: a Tribute to George Garrett (contributor; editors: Paul Ruffin and Stuart Wright), Texas Review Press (Houston), 1989
  • George Garrett, an Interview, Northouse & Northouse (Dallas), 1988
  • The Year of Silence, Ticknor and Fields, 1987
  • Zero db and Other Stories, Ticknor and Fields, 1987, 1989
  • Country of Here Below (contributor), Ahsahta Press (Boise, Idaho), 1987
  • Straight Cut, Ticknor and Fields, 1986, 1991
  • A Stubborn Sense of Place: Forum (with Lee Smith, et. al.), New York: Harper’s Magazine, vol. 273, no. 1635, Aug., 1986
  • Waiting for the End of the World, Ticknor and Fields, 1985, 1986
  • History of the Owen School: From Its Early Origins to 1984, The Washington Square Ensemble, Viking Press, 1983, (Penguin 1984, 1986)