The Measure of a Mountain (Sasquatch Books, 1997;
Ballantine, 1998)
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight
to save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird (Random House,
2008)
Summers with the Bears (Hyperion, 1999)
Writing Personal Essays (Writer’s Digest, 1995)
Keeping a Journal You Love (Writer’s Digest, 2001)
Tibetian Portraits (Rizzoli International, 1996)
In the Company of My Sisters (Dutton/Penguin, 1997)
Can I Get a Witness (Dutton/Penguin, 1999)
Girlfriend to Girlfriend (Dutton/Penguin, 1999)
Being With Rachel: A Story of Memory and Survival (W.W. Norton, 2002)
Excerpts From a Family Medical Dictionary (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003; Granta, 2004)
Fifth Life of the Catwoman, a novel (Berkley, 2002)
Nature in the City: Seattle: Walks, Hikes, Wildlife, Natural
Wonders (The Mountaineers Books, 2003)
Madchild Running, a novel (Red Crane Books, 1999)
Reaching Home: Pacific Salmon, Pacific People (Graphic Arts Center, 1995)
I Dream Alaska (Graphic Arts Center, 1998)
Body Remember: A Memoir (Dutton, 1998; University of
Wisconsin Press, 2003)
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s
Theory (Da Capo, 2007)
Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall
Street (McGraw Hill, 1996)
For the Century’s End: Poems: 1990-1999 (University of Washington Press, 2001)
The Stars, the Snow, the Fire (Graywolf Press, 2000)
Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Sasquatch Books,
2001)
Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of
Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin’s Lost
Notebooks (Little, Brown, 2006)
Into the Forest, a novel (Calyx Books, 1996; Bantam, 1998)
Windfalls, a novel (Atria, 2004; Washington Square Press, 2005)
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of
Contemplation (Oxford University Press, NY, 2006)
Green Alaska: Dreams of the Far Coast (Counterpoint Press, 2000)
Fishcamp: Life on the Alaskan Shore (Counterpoint Press, 2000)
The Man Who Swam With Beavers, fictions (Coffee House Press, 2002)
Beluga Days: Tracking the White Whale’s Truths (Counterpoint Press, 2003)
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on a Family Farm (HarperSanFrancisco, 1996)
Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (W.W. Norton, 1998)
Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring (W.W. Norton, 2004)
The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir (Berkley, 2008)
The Nordstrom Way: The Insider Story of America’s #1
Customer Service Company (Wiley, 1995 & 1999)
Lessons from the Nordstrom Way: How Companies are
Emulating the #1 Customer Service Company (Wiley,
2000)
The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: A
Handbook for Implementing Great Service in Your
Organization (Wiley, 2005)
Balance: Falling, Vertigo, and Life on the High Wire (Little, Brown, 2007)
A Long Way from St. Louie (Coffee House Press, 1997)
Traveling Music (Story Line Press, 1998)
Over the Lip of the World: The Storytellers of
Madagascar (University of Washington Press, 1999)
The Bathhouse, a novel (Black Heron Press, 2001, Beacon Press, 2003)
Against Gravity, a novel (Penguin, 2005)
Disappearance: A Map (Doubleday, 1996)
Midnight to the North (Tarcher/Penguin USA, 2002)
Shimmering Images
Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco (Mercury House, 1993)
a*hole (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust,
as told be Zosia Goldberg (Mercury House, 2004)
The Encyclopedia of Health and Nutrition (Facts on File, 1997, 2005)
The Ship that Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First
Year of the Pacific War (USN Institute Press, 1995)
Savage Love: Straight Answers from America’s Most
Popular Sex Columnist (Dutton, 1998)
The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I
Decided to Go Get Pregnant (Dutton, 2000)
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins
and the Pursuit of Happiness in America (Dutton, 2003)
The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
(Dutton, 2005)
Cruising Guide to Puget Sound (McGraw Hill, 1994, 2004)
Still Loved by the Sun: A Rape Survivor’s Journey (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Back Under Sail: Recovering the Spirit of Adventure (Milkweed, 2003)
Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense (Little, Brown, 2007)
Love, War, and Circuses: The Age Old Relationship
Between Elephants and Humans (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
Michelangelo’s Mountain: The Quest for Perfection in the
Marble Quarries of Carrara (Free Press, 2005)
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast (HarperCollins, 2000, 2002)
Anytime, Anywhere (Perseus, 2002)
Category Killers: The Retail Revolution and Its Impact
on Consumer Culture (Harvard Business School Press,
2005)
The Nordstrom Way: The Insider Story of America’s #1
Customer Service Company (Wiley, 1995 & 1999)
Lessons from the Nordstrom Way: How Companies are
Emulating the #1 Customer Service Company (Wiley,
2000)
The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: A
Handbook for Implementing Great Service in Your
Organization (Wiley, 2005)
Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of
American Policing (Nation Books, 2005)
Queer Gyrl Anthology, editor (Carol & Graf, 2006)
Rose of No Man’s Land, a novel (Harvest/Harcourt, 2007)
It’s So You, editor (Seal, 2007)
Zero to Fifty: A Lifetime in the Driver’s Seat (Algonquin, 2003)
Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness (Anchor/Knopf, 1994)
Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War (Anchor, 1994)
The Tao Speaks: Lao-Tzu’s Whispers of Wisdom (Anchor, 1995)
Confucious Speaks: Words to Live By (Anchor, 1996)
Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature (Anchor, 1997)
Wisdom of the Zen Masters (Anchor, 1998)
Birds of Central Park (Abrams, 2005)
The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You
Need to Know to Get it Right (Portfolio, 2006)
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a
Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret (HarperCollins,
2001)
Stonescaping: A Guide to Using Stone in Your Garden (Storey Publishing, 1992)