Memoir
- The Start: 1904-30 (20th Century Journey, #1)
- Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
- The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
- Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings
- Feel Free: Essays
- Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness
- Un altro giro di giostra
- Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics
- Journal of a West India Proprietor: Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
- How to Be Alone
- Farther Away
- Magical Thinking: True Stories
- Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
- Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life
- If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women Writers)