Books

• Zig Zag Wanderer, Concord Free Press, 2013.
• The Washington Square Ensemble, Audible, Inc, 2013. (audible audio edition)
• 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)