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)
A Grey Moon Over China (Black Heron, 2006; TOR, 2009)
Fifth Life of the Catwoman, a novel (Berkley, 2002)
Nature in the City: Seattle: Walks, Hikes, Wildlife, Natural
Wonders (The Mountaineers Books, 2003)
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s
Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber
Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science, with Eric Scigliano
(Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2009)
Madchild Running, a novel (Red Crane Books, 1999)
Special Exits: A Graphic Novel (Fantagraphics, 2010)
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)
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wildness
(Little, Brown, 2009)
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)
Early Warming: Alarms and Responses from the
Climate-Changed North (Counterpoint Press, 2010)
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)
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from
the Land (Free Press, 2009)
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 Agnostics (University of Michigan Press, 2007)
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)
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s
Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber
Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science, with Curtis
Ebbesmeyer (Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2009)
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 Mom & Pop Store (Walker, 2009)
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)
Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (Little,
Brown, 2009)
Baby, Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing,
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)
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
(W.W. Norton, 2009)