- Tales of the Gods and Heroes (1938)
- The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1940)
- The Pathfinders (1941)
- The Deerslayer (1942)
- The Pioneers (1943)
- The Prairie (1944)
- The American Frontier (1946)
- The Western Movement (1947)
- The Settlement of the Old Northwest (1948)
- The United States in the Nineteenth Century (1949)
- The Twentieth Century: A History (1951)
- The United States in World Affairs (1953)
- The Decline of the West (1955)
- The Rise of Fascism (1957)
- The Great Depression and the New Deal (1959)
- World War II (1961)
- The Cold War (1963)
- The Vietnam War (1965)
- The Watergate Scandal (1973)
- The American Revolution (1975)
- The Rise of American Civilization (1980)
Short stories:
- "The Lady or the Tiger?" (1882)
- "The Necklace" (1884)
- "The Interrupted Wedding" (1886)
- "The Open Boat" (1897)
- "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1900)
- "Billy Budd, Sailor" (1924)
Poetry:
- "Mending Wall" (1914)
- "After Apple-Picking" (1916)
- "The Road Not Taken" (1916)
- "Fire and Ice" (1920)
- "Birches" (1918)
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923)