- *In the Sunlight of a Larger Life* (1989)
- *Shadow Child: A Holocaust Fable* (1990)
- *The Master's Tale: A Love Story* (2000)
- *One Little Room: A Christmas Tale* (2005)
- *The Long Tomorrow* (2009)
- *The Lost Girls: Three Sisters, Two Wars, and the Holocaust* (2021)
Non-fiction:
- *To Save the Children: The Story of the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children, 1940-1949* (1992)
- *The Art of Teaching Children: A Guide for Home and School* (1993)
- *Our Home Place* (1995)
- *The Story of the Jews: From the Time of Abraham to the Present Day* (1996)
- *A Time to Heal: Conversations with Young Holocaust Survivors* (1997)
- *The Children of the Holocaust* (1998)
- *From Then Till Now: A Personal Journey* (2001)
- *The Life of Irena Sendler: Rescuing Children from the Warsaw Ghetto* (2003)
- *To Save a People: The Story of Jewish Rescue in the Holocaust* (2005)
- *The Book of Memory* (2007)
- *The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Eastern European Communism* (2011)
- *The Forgotten Story: The True Role of Poland in World War II* (2014)
- *How to Raise a Moral Child: Lessons from World History on Parenting Virtuous Children* (2016)
- *The Unreasonable Grace of Love: Faith, Hope, and the Pursuit of Happiness* (2019)
Memoir:
- *My America* (2012)