- _101 Movie Milestones: The Films That Changed Cinema_ (1996)
- _Movie DNA: Screenwriting 101 and Beyond_, with Terry O'Neill (1997)
- _Movies: The Big Goodbye_, with James Robert Parish (1998)
- _The Hollywood Book of Death_, with Chris Epting (1999)
- _VideoHound 1999–2000 Movie Guide_, with Patrick Legare and Adam Riske (2000)
- _The Best Movies You've Never Seen_ (2002)
- _The Disney Film Project: A Critic's Guide to Every Disney Film Ever Made_, co-edited with Christopher Leitch (2003)
- _The Hollywood Book of Horror: The Goriest, Most Violent, Most Diabolically Evil Films_, with Chris Epting (2004)
- _The Devil's Guide to Hollywood_ (2006)
- _The Making of Jurassic World: The Event Film of a Generation_ (2015)
- _The Art of the Deal: The Story of America's Greatest Deal Maker_, with Mark Jacobson and Steve Kroft (2016)
- _J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit Film Companion_, with Brian Sibley (2016)
- _Jurassic Park: The Original Screenplay_ (2020)
- _The Making of Jurassic Park: The 30th Anniversary Edition_ (2022)
Fiction
- _Tentacle_ (1997)
- _The Void_(2008)
- _Red Zone_(2008)
- _Dead End_(2009)
- _Extinction Point_ (2009)
- _The Darkening _(2011)
- _Ghost Ship_(2011)
- _Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar_ (2018)
- _Jurassic Park: The Lost World: Site B_ (2021)
- _Jurassic Park: Redemption_(2023)