* The One-Eyed Man (1973)
* North of Cheyenne (1986)
* The Burning Land (1990)
* Cadillac Jukebox (1994)
* The Devil in the Dooryard (1996)
* Bloodroot (1998)
* The Last Run (2001)
* Judas Horse (2004)
* The Wolf Hunter (2006)
* To the Far Blue Mountains (2008)
* The English Spy (2011)
* The American Agent (2013)
* The Russian Spy (2015)
* The Chinese Spy (2017)
* The Last Mission (2019)
Short story collections:
* Horse and Other Stories (1991)
* Night of the Living Rez (2001)
* The Collected Short Stories of James LeRoy Smith (2010)
Poetry collections:
* Indian Creek (1984)
* The Inyo Poems (1988)
* Red Dust (1991)
* The River at Wolf Creek (1994)
* The Black River (1997)
* The Deer at Twilight (2000)
* The Sun at Midnight (2003)
* The Moon in the Water (2005)
* The Stars in the Sky (2008)
* Coyote Sings to the Moon (2011)
* Owl Calls in the Night (2013)
* Raven Flies in the Morning (2015)
* Hawk Soars in the Sun (2017)
* Crow Dances in the Rain (2019)
Non-fiction:
* The Horsemasters of the High Desert (1989)
* The Life and Times of Crazy Horse (1991)
* The Sioux Indian Wars (1996)
* The American Cowboy (2000)
* The Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003)
* The Oregon Trail (2006)
* The California Gold Rush (2008)
* The Civil War (2011)
* The Wild West (2013)
* The Great Depression (2015)
* World War II (2017)
* The Vietnam War (2019)