Memoir
- The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
- '68
- Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
- A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart
- Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights
- Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
- Little Girl Fly Away
- Eat a Peach
- Delights and Prejudices
- The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen
- Siren's Feast, An Edible Odyssey
- Thin
- Diary of an Anorexic Girl
- Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution