Books in Authors
- On Writers and Writing
- Dostoievsky
- The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
- The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey From a World Gone Grey
- Foucault in California: [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
- Eminent Victorians
- Die Verwaltung des Nichts
- The Letters of Shirley Jackson
- Paris France
- Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
- I, Asimov: A Memoir
- Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write
- Sybille Bedford: A Life
- This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
- The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Personal Writings
- My Life as a Villainess: Essays
- C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Friendship
- Borges and Me: An Encounter
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
- Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
- The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
- Will: A Memoir
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
- Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
- Intimations: Six Essays
- Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls
- Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
- In the Shadow of the Bridge: A Memoir
- The Distance Between Us: A Memoir
- Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir