* The Butterfly Swims (2004)
* Night of Sorrows (2006)
* The Life and Death of a Minyan (2011)
* The Ladder (2014)
* Here in the Night (2018)
Non-Fiction
* The History of the Jews in South Carolina (1994)
* The Jews in the South: A History (1998)
* The Education of a Klansman (2002)
* The Jewish State: A History (2008)
* The Holocaust: A History (2015)
Short Stories
* "The Rabbi's Daughter" (2001)
* "The Last Jew of Auschwitz" (2003)
* "The Tree of Life" (2007)
* "The Book of Ruth" (2012)
* "The Promised Land" (2017)
Essays
* "The Problem of Evil" (2001)
* "The Nature of Faith" (2004)
* "The Holocaust and the Human Condition" (2010)
* "The Meaning of Life" (2016)
Poetry
* "Songs of the Soul" (2010)
* "Psalms of the Heart" (2015)
Children's Books
* "The Little Jewish Boy" (2002)
* "The Little Jewish Girl" (2003)
* "The Miracle of Hanukkah" (2004)
* "The Story of Passover" (2005)
* "The Tale of Purim" (2006)
Other
* "The Claes Brenman Reader" (2018)
* "The Essential Claes Brenman" (2018)
* "The Complete Claes Brenman" (2018)