- Up the Creek: From the White House to the Everglades - A Memoir (1999)
- Lost in the Ozone (2002)
- The Ballad of the Broken Bird (2004)
- The Story of the Everglades: A Cultural, Natural, and Environmental History (2006)
- The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (2010)
- American Artifacts (2013)
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2015)
- The Bookseller's Apprentice: A Memoir (2018)
- The Unofficial Guide to Everglades National Park (2020)