- That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
- Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing
- Under a Rock: A Memoir
- Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
- Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
- Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
- The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
- The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
- The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
- The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
- Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge
- Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
- The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
- The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
- Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
- Taste: My Life Through Food
- The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
- The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley
- Janis: Her Life and Music
- On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey