* Son, which won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
* Fulton Street, a story about a Dominican family living in New York City
* Out for Haram, about the life of a teenager living in the Bronx
* We Are Outliers, a short story collection
Non-Fiction:
* A Thousand Small Sanities: The Mental Illness That Didn't Exist But Should Have, a memoir about his own struggles with mental illness