- _No Heroes: One Soldier's Memoir of the Real Iraq_ (2022)
- _American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Second Assassination of John F. Kennedy_ (2021)
- _A Line in the Sand: One Soldier's Year on the Afghan Frontlines_ (2015)
- _Baghdad After the Surge: Life on the Streets After the Surge - and What It Means for Us_ (2012)
- _Crazy in Iraq & Back: PTSD: Life After War-and Recovery Through Civilian Life._ (2016)
Magazine and online writing
His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, TheAtlantic.com, Esquire, Men's Journal, Mother Jones, Outside, Time magazine, Vanity Fair, National Geographic Online, GQ, The Nation, Mother Jones, NewRepublic.com, Salon, Politico, TheHill, Raw Story, Democracy NOW!-TV and radio broadcast, C-SPAN and Current TV/Al Jazeera English TV broadcast/internet TV show and on CNN TV