My Uncle Dudley (novel) 1942

The Man Who Was There (novel) 1945

The Inhabitants (photo text) 1946

The Home Place (photo text) 1948

The World in the Attic (novel) 1949

Man and Boy (novel) 1951

The Works of Love (novel) 1952

The Deep Sleep (novel) 1953

The Huge Season (novel) 1954

The Field of Vision (novel) 1956

Love Among the Cannibals (novel) 1957

The Territory Ahead (essays) 1958

Ceremony in Lone Tree (novel) 1960

What A Way To Go (novel) 1962

Cause for Wonder (novel) 1963

One Day (novel) 1965

In Orbit (novel) 1967

A Bill of Rites, A Bill of Wrongs, A Bill of Goods (essays) 1968

God's Country and My People (photo text) 1968

Green Grass, Blue Sky, White House (short stories) 1970

Fire Sermon (novel) 1971

Love Affair: A Venetian Journal (photo text) 1972

War Games (novel) 1972

Here Is Einbaum (short stories) 1973

A Life (novel) 1973

About Fiction: Reverent Reflections on the Nature of Fiction with Irreverent Observations on Writers, Readers, and Other Abuses (essays) 1974

The Cat's Meow (short stories) 1975

Real Losses, Imaginary Gains (short stories) 1976

Wright Morris: Structure and Artifact: Photographs 1933-1954 (photography) 1976

The Fork River Space Project (novel) 1977

Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments: American Writers As Image Makers (essays) 1978

Plains Song: For Female Voices (novel) 1981

Will's Boy: A Memoir (memoir) 1981

Picture America [with James Alinder] (photo text) 1982

Photographs and Words (photo text) 1982

Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934 (memoir) 1983

Collected Stories 1948-1986 (short stories) 1986

Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (photo text) 1989

A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life (memoir) 1993