- 1957: *Old Man on the Curb*
- 1959: *My Aunt Bessy: A Novel of the Mississippi Delta*
- 1961: *The Other Place*
- 1964: *Now There Was Nothing*
- 1967: *In Time Like Air*
- 1971: *The Long Embrace*
- 1973: *The Edge*
- 1976: *The Widow's Mite*
Nonfiction:
- 1968: *To Make All Gracious: Some Reflections on the Spiritual Life of the South*
- 1976: *The Bible and Children*
- 1986: *The Art of the Essay*