* _Black Rain in the Trees_ (1973)
* _The King's Ransom_ (1978)
* _The Spy's Wife_ (1980)
* _The Right Stuff_ (1983)
* _The High Heart_ (1984)
* _The Golden Mean_ (1987)
* _The Torch_ (1988)
* _The Dream of the West_ (1989)
* _The River of Souls_ (1990)
* _The Last Stand_ (1991)
* _The Ballad of the Last Outlaw_ (1992)
Nonfiction:
* _The Space Station: America's Next Frontier_ (1983)
* _Moon Shots: The Inside Story of America's Space Program_ (1984)
* _The Astronauts: They Said They Would Go_ (1986)
* _The Final Frontier_ (1990)
* _The Great Depression: A History of America in the 1930s_ (1993)
* _War and Peace: Four Views of World History_ (1993)
* _The People's History of the United States_ (1994)
* _The War: An Intimate History_ (1995)
* _American Destiny_ (1997)
* _The First Americans_ (2002)
* _1776: The World Turned Upside Down_ (2006)
* _Abraham Lincoln: A Life in War and Peace_ (2008)
* _Robert E. Lee: A Biography_ (2012)
* _Washington: A Life_ (2015)
* _The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory That Saved Western Civilization_ (2019)