* *China: A Journey for Peace and Prosperity* (1989)
* *Dancing with Gorillas: And Other True Encounters with Wildlife* (1989)
* *Lone Star Rising* (1991)
* *The Making of the President: Bill Clinton and the Democratic Victory in 1992* (1993)
* *Life Is War: Dealing with Conflict and Change* (1994)
* *The Battle for the Soul of the Internet* (1997)
* *With Liberty and Justice for Some* (1998)
* *The System: How the Media and the Establishment Control What We Think and How We Live* (2004)
* *Why We Fight* (2006)
* *America the Resilient: How the Nation Rebounds from Crisis* (2011)
* *The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster* (2013)
Fiction
* *Red Hot Blues: A Novel* (1995)
* *Love in Winter: A Novel* (1998)
* *The Color of Truth* (2010)
* *The Sister's Song: A Novel of the Lost Boys of Sudan* (2014)