Novels

Plains Song: For Female Voices, 1981, reprinted by David R Godine, 1991

The Fork River Space Project, 1977, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1982

The Home Place, 1948, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska P, 1968

A Life, 1973, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1980

War Games, 1972, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1978

Fire Sermon, 1971, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1979

In Orbit, 1967, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1976

One Day, 1965, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1976

Cause for Wonder, 1963, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1978

What a Way To Go, 1962, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1979

Ceremony in Lone Tree, 1960, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1973

Love Among the Cannibals, 1957, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1977

The Field of Vision, 1956, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1974

The Huge Season, 1954, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1975

The Deep Sleep, 1953, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1975

The Works of Love, 1952, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1972

Man and Boy, 1951, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1974

The World in the Attic, 1949, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1971

The Man who Was There, 1945, Univ of Nebraska Press, 1977

My Uncle Dudley, 1942, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1975

Short Story Collections

Collected Stories 1948-1986, 1986, reprinted by David R Godine, 1988

Real Losses, Imaginary Gains, HarperCollins, 1976

The Cat's Meow, Black Sparrow P, 1975

Here Is Einbaum, Black Sparrow Press, 1973

Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House, Black Sparrow P, 1970

Anthologies

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer, (The Works of Love and The Huge Season), Black Sparrow Press, 1995

Two for the Road (Man and Boy & In Orbit), Black Sparrow Press, 1994

Three Easy Pieces, Black Sparrow Press, 1993

Wright Morris: A Reader, HarperCollins, 1970

Essays

Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments: American Writers As Image Makers, HarperCollins, 1978

About Fiction: Reverent Reflections on the Nature of Fiction With Irreverent Observations on Writers, Readers and Other Abuses, HarperCollins, 1974

A Bill of Rites, A Bill of Wrongs, A Bill of Goods, 1968, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1981

The Territory Ahead, 1958, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1978

Memoirs

Writing My Life (Will's Boy: A Memoir, Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934, A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life), Black Sparrow Press, 1993

A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life, 1985, Black Sparrow P, 1993

Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934, Harper, 1983

Will's Boy: A Memoir, Harper, 1981

Photo-Text Books

Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory, Aperture, 1989

Picture America, with James Alinder, New York Graphic Society, 1982

Photographs & Words, Hacker Art Books, 1982

Wright Morris: Structure and Artifacts: Photographs, 1933-1954, Univ of Nebraska Press, 1976

Love Affair: A Venetian Journal, Harper & Row, 1972

God's Country and My People, 1968, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska Press, 1983

The Home Place, 1948, reprinted by Univ of Nebraska P, 1968

The Inhabitants, 1946, reprinted by Da Capo P, 1972