* _My Chinese Album_ (1996)
* _The Red Line_ (1998)
* _The Sky People_ (2000)
* _The Island Within: A Novel_ (2003)
* _Our Lady of the Crossroads: A Novel_ (2006)
* _Mexican Train: A Novel_ (2008)
* _The Sound Between the Stars_ (2012)
* _Lady Bird: A Novel_ (2015)
* _The Secret Lives of Children: A Novel_ (2017)
* _The Sea Knows All: A Novel_ (2020)
Nonfiction
* _The Other Child_ (2010)
* _A Great Reckoning: The Story of One World War II Prisoner of War_ (2015)