- 1992: *Banana Rose*
- 1993: *A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam*
-1995: *My Mother’s Kitchen: Jewish and Italian Family Recipes*
- 1995: *A Woman on Paper*
- 1998: *Bohemian Paris *
- 2000: *Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married*
- 2003: *The Ten Best Days of My Life*
- 2007: *The First Love Letters of Hiram and Ida: Two American Pioneers and How Their Words Won Each Other’s Hearts*
- 2017: *Nostalgia*
Journalism and essays:
- The New York Times
- Vanity Fair
- Rolling Stone
- GQ
- New York
- O, The Oprah Magazine