Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna (poetry) 1927

Toilers of the Hills (novel) 1928; also published as The Wild One, 1952

Dark Bridwell (novel) 1931

In Tragic Life [first book of the “Vridar Hunter” tetralogy] (novel) 1932

Passions Spin the Plot [second book of the “Vridar Hunter” tetralogy] (novel) 1934

We Are Betrayed [third book of the “Vridar Hunter” tetralogy] (novel) 1935

No Villain Need Be [fourth book of the “Vridar Hunter” tetralogy] (novel) 1936

April: A Fable of Love (novel) 1937

Forgive Us Our Virtues: A Comedy of Evasions (novel) 1938

Children of God (novel) 1939

Idaho Lore [editor] (nonfiction) 1939

City of Illusion (novel) 1941

Darkness and the Deep [first book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1943

The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage (novel) 1943

The Caxton Printers in Idaho, a Short History (history) 1944

The Golden Rooms [second book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1944

Intimations of Eve [third book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1946

Adam and the Serpent [fourth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1947

The Divine Passion [fifth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1948

The Valley of Vision [sixth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1951

The Island of the Innocent [seventh book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1952

God or Caesar? The Writing of Fiction for Beginners (nonfiction) 1953

A Goat for Azazel [eighth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1956

Jesus Came Again: A Parable [ninth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1956

Pemmican: A Novel of the Hudson's Bay Company (novel) 1956

Peace Like a River: A Novel of Christian Asceticism [tenth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1957; republished as The Passion Within, 1960

My Holy Satan [eleventh book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1958

Tale of Valor: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (novel) 1958

Love and Death: The Complete Stories of Vardis Fisher (short stories) 1959

Orphans in Gethsemane: A Novel of the Past in the Present [twelfth book of the “Testament of Man” series] (novel) 1960; republished in two volumes as For Passion, For Heaven and The Great Confession, 1962

Suicide or Murder? The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether (history) 1962

Thomas Wolfe as I Knew Him and Other Essays (essays) 1963

Mountain Man: A Novel of the Male and the Female in the Early American West (novel) 1965

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West [co-authored with Opal Laurel Holmes] (history) 1968