* Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983)
* Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
* Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (1995)
* Bug Music: How Insects Gave Rise to Civilization (2005)
* Empires of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (2013)
* The Trouble with Wilderness or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature (2022)
Edited collections
* Dead Ends: American Land Use in Historical Perspective (1987)
* Going Places: The Ways of the World in the Twentieth Century (1999)
* The Making of the American Landscape (2002)
* American Environmental History: The Past and Future of a Field (2011)
Articles and essays
* "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative" (1992)
* "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" (1995)
* "Only Connect: The Gospel According to Wendell Berry" (2003)
* "Bug Music: How Insects Gave Rise to Civilization" (2005)
* "The End of Ecology" (2012)
Awards and honors
* Bancroft Prize (1984)
* Pulitzer Prize for History (1992)
* MacArthur Fellowship (1994)
* Albert Beveridge Award (2014)
* Pritzker Architecture Prize (2018)