* _A Separate Peace_ (1959)
* _To Kill a Mockingbird_ (1960)
* _The Reivers_ (1962)
* _In Cold Blood_ (1966)
* _The Summer of '42_ (1971)
* _Dixie Carter: American Original_ (1989)
* _The Testaments of One Jarrett_ (1996)
* _Atticus Finch: The Biography_ (2010)
* _Go Set a Watchman_ (2015)
Nonfiction
* _Letters to Malcolm_ (1968)
* _Conversations with Faulkner_ (1981)
* _Mississippi: An American Journey_ (1982)
* _Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story_ (1985)
* _The Best of American Essays, 1987_ (1987)
* _Faulkner: A Biography_ (1987)
* _In Search of J.D. Salinger_ (1992)
* _Citizen: A Chronicle of the Civil Rights Movement_ (2002)
* _Unvanquished: A Novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction_ (2009)