Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (2003) ISBN 978-0-375-42130-3 Speak, Commentary: The Big Little Book of Fake Dvd Commentaries (2003) (with Jeff Alexander) ISBN 978-1-932416-07-7 God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories (2005) ISBN 978-0-375-42264-5 The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (2007) ISBN 978-0-375-42265-2 Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010), ISBN 978-0-307-37870-5 Magic Hours: Essays On Creators and Creation (2012), ISBN 978-1-936365-76-0 The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (2013, with Greg Sestero), ISBN 1451661193 Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve (2016) ISBN 978-0-375-424663 Everything About Everything: Infinite Jest, Twenty Years Later (2016) ISBN 978-0-316-30605-8