- "The Best Science Writing of 1997"(with James Trefil), Harper Perennial, October 1998.
- "People of the River: Losing America's Water," William Morrow, August 2002.
- "What Your Congressional Representative Doesn't Want You to Know," Harper Perennial, July 2006.
- "No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Hall," Random House, September 2008.
- "Truck: A Love Story," Spiegel & Grau, August 2011.
- "Lay the Favorite," William Morrow, May 2013.
- "The Rogue: How American Politics Lost Its Bearing," Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2016.
- "Overexposed: The Hijacking of America's Food System," Norton, 2018.
Articles and Essays
Hume has written for numerous publications, including *The New York Times Magazine,* *The Washington Post Magazine,* *Mother Jones,* *Texas Monthly,* *Newsday,* *Salon,* and *The Believer.*