* The Road Back Home (1975)
* Three Roads to Calvary (1981)
* Brothers, Sons, Lovers (1984)
* Tell My Horse (1986)
* The Girl I Left Behind Me (1991)
* This Is My Story (1994)
* Family Secrets (1997)
* Sisters of Mercy (2000)
* The Unfinished Song (2003)
* The Bridges of Madison County (2007)
Non-Fiction
* The Mississippi River: A Journey (2002)
* The American Journey: Three Centuries of Settling the Land (2004)
* The Irish in America: A History (2010)
* The Civil War: A History (2015)