* "My Fathers' Wives" (1989)
* "The Secret Life of Water" (1992)
* "The City Beneath the Sea" (1996)
* "The Beautiful Bureaucrat" (2000)
* "The Collector of Secrets" (2004)
* "The Woman in Blue" (2007)
* "The House by the Lake" (2010)
* "The Last Master of the World" (2013)
* "The Book of Spells" (2016)
* "The Summer of 1956" (2019)
Short Stories:
* "The Red House" (1990)
* "The Man Who Loved Trains" (1993)
* "The Woman Who Loved Stars" (1995)
* "The Girl Who Lost Her Memory" (1997)
* "The Boy Who Found a Treasure" (1999)
* "The Man Who Could See the Future" (2001)
* "The Woman Who Could Speak to Animals" (2003)
* "The Boy Who Could Fly" (2005)
* "The Girl Who Could Read Minds" (2007)
* "The Man Who Could Stop Time" (2009)
Nonfiction:
* "The World's Greatest Mysteries" (1998)
* "The History of the World" (2001)
* "The Book of Knowledge" (2004)
* "The Encyclopedia of Science" (2007)
* "The Dictionary of History" (2010)
* "The Atlas of the World" (2013)
* "The Book of Science" (2016)
* "The Book of Art" (2019)
* "The Book of Music" (2022)