Breath, Eyes, Memory (novel, 1994) Krik? Krak! (stories, 1996) The Farming of Bones (novel, 1998) Behind the Mountains (young adult novel, 2002, part of the First Person Fiction series) After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (travel book, 2002) The Dew Breaker (novel-in-stories, 2004) Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 (young adult novel, 2005, part of The Royal Diaries series) Brother, I'm Dying (memoir/social criticism, 2007) The Butterfly's Way (anthology editor) Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (essay collection, 2010) Eight Days: A Story of Haiti (picture book, 2010) Tent Life: Haiti (essay contributor, 2011) Haiti Noir (anthology editor, 2011) Best American Essays, 2011 (anthology editor, October 2011) The Last Mapou (children's novel, January 2013) Claire of the Sea Light (novel, August 2013) Haiti Noir 2: The Classics (anthology editor, January 2014) Mama's Nightingale (picture book, September, 2015) Untwine (young adult novel, October 2015) The Art of Death (biography, July 2017) My Mommy Medicine (picture book, February 2019) Everything Inside (stories August 2019)