* The Death and Life of Kenny Starr (2002)
* The Perfect Score: The Obsessive Quest to Score 1600 on the SAT (2010)
* Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media (2013)
* Monster in the Closet: And Other Secrets We Keep from Our Children (2019)
* Drugs and the Man: How One Addict's Journey Led to a New Understanding of Addiction (2023)
Fiction
* The Narrows (2012)
* Days of Rage: A Novel of the Manson Family (2015)