* The Devil's Highway (2008)
* With the Sun on My Face: Growing Up in a Working-Class Family (2010)
* The Spider and the Fly: How the U.S. and China Are Reshaping the World (2011)
* After the Last Race (2012)
* When the Birds Sang: A Forgotten World of Rare and Beautiful Birds (2013)
* The Last Days of the San Francisco Chronicle (2014)
* People Like Us: How the Rich and Powerful Succeed and How We Can Stop Them (2016)
* The Fourth Revolution: How the Digital Age Is Transforming the Way We Live, Work, and Think (2018)
* Uncommon Carriers: The Truth Behind America's Airline Crisis (2019)
* The Case for Socialism (2021)
* The Great Escape: A True Story of War, Survival, and Freedom on the Burma Railway (2023)
Fiction
* The Venice Sketchbook (2009)
* The Devil's Highway (2011)
* The Long Affair (2012)
* The Secret History of Coca-Cola (2013)
* The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)