Novels:
* A Feather on the Breath of God (1985)
* The Last of Her Kind (1987)
* After Long Silence (1990)
* Salvation (1993)
* The Friend (2018) - Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
* The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (2021)
Essay Collections:
* Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (2017)
* The Friend: An Essay (2018) - a companion piece to her novel "The Friend"
Nunez has also published short stories and essays in various literary magazines. Her work often explores themes of loss, memory, friendship, and the search for meaning in a complex world.