Short Story Collections:
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981)
Victory Over Japan (1984)
Drunk With Love (1986)
Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle (1989)
I Cannot Get You Close Enough (1990)
The Age of Miracles (1995)
Rhoda: A Life in Stories (1995)
The Courts of Love (1996)
Flights of Angels: Stories (1998)
The Cabal and Other Stories (2000)
Collected Stories (2000)
I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting With My Daddy: And Other Stories (2002)
Norah Jane: A Life in Stories (2005)
Acts of God (2014)

Novels:
The Annunciation (1983)
The Anna Papers (1988)
Net of Jewels (1993)
Starcarbon (1994)
Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior (1994)
Sarah Conley (1997)
A Dangerous Age (2008)

Poetry Collections:
The Land Surveyor's Daughter: Poems (1979)
Riding Out the Tropical Depression: Selected Poems (1986)

Nonfiction:
Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist (1987, 2000)
The Writing Life (2005) - a collection of autobiographical essays