Художественная литература:
2002 — You Shall Know Our Velocity
2003 — Sacrament
2004 — The Unforbidden is Compulsory; or, Optimism
2004 — How We Are Hungry (рассказы)
2005 — Short Short Stories (рассказы)
2006 — What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
2007 — How the Water Feels to the Fishes (рассказы)
2009 — The Wild Things
2012 — Голограмма для короля / A Hologram for the King
2013 — Сфера / The Circle
2014 — Отцы ваши — где они? Да и пророки, будут ли они вечно жить? / Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
2016 — Heroes of the Frontier
Нонфикшн:
2000 — Душераздирающее творение ошеломляющего гения / A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2005 — Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (в соавторстве с Daniel Moulthrop и Nínive Clements Calegari)
2005 — Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
2009 — Зейтун / Zeitoun
2013 — Visitants
Юмористические книги:
2003 — Giraffes? Giraffes! (as Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey, в соавторстве с Christopher Eggers)
2004 — Your Disgusting Head (as Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey, в соавторстве с Christopher Eggers)
2006 — Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (as Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey, в соавторстве с Christopher Eggers)
2009 -Cold Fusion (as Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey, в соавторстве с Christopher Eggers)
Сценарии:
2009 — Away We Go, with wife Vendela Vida
2009 — Where the Wild Things Are, with director Spike Jonze
2012 — Promised Land, screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski, story by Dave Eggers
