* The Unfinished Song of Lizzie Lynn (2012)
* The Secret Life of Sarah Hooten (2009)
* The Last of the Blue Water Cowboys (2006)
* Wildfire Season (2004)
* Shanghai Moon (2003)
* The Dinosaur Feather (1997)
* Way Past Cool (1993)
* The Devil's Highway (1988)
* Sigma Draconis (1986)
Non-Fiction:
* Outside Havana: A Memoir (2022)
* Fateless: A True Story of a Lost Boy, a Forgotten War, and the Rise and Fall of the Khmer Rouge (2020)
* Dead Reckoning: The Life and Crimes of the Notorious Pirate Captain Ned Low (2016)
* The Big Havana Hustle: Making Waves in Cuba's Thriving Underground Music Scene (2014)
* No Way Home: The Last Years of America's Ill-fated Saigon Embassy (2013)
* Into the Darkness: The Story of the Vietnamese Boat People (1995)
* The First Vietnam War: Colonial and Revolutionary Vietnam, 1776-1893 (1969)
Children's Books:
* Max's Ride (2012)
* Pirate Max and the Treasure Hunt (2008)
* Pirate Max and the Shipwreck Adventure (2007)
* Pirate Max and the Buried Treasure (2006)
* Pirate Max (1998)