Esther Stories, (Houghton Mifflin, 2001, re-issue with a forward by Marilynne Robinson, Little Brown, 2013)

The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, (Little Brown, 2006)

Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, (Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's, 2008) (editor)

Love and Shame and Love, (Little, Brown, 2011)

Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's, 2011)

Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, (Little Brown, 2013)

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Reading to Live and Living to Read, (Catapult, 2016)

Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince (Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's/ Verso Press, 2017)

Maggie Brown & Others, (forthcoming, Little, Brown, 2019)