- Novels
- The Mezzanine [1988]
- Room Temperature [1990]
- ✔ Vox: A Novel [1992]
- The Fermata [1994]
- The Everlasting Story of Nory [1998]
- A Box of Matches [2003]
- Checkpoint [2004]
- The Anthologist [2009]
- Non-fiction
- U and I: A True Story [1991]
- The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber [1996]
- Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper [2001]
- With Margaret Brentano (his wife). The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898–1911) [2005]
- Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization [2008]
aug 6 2009 ∞
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