- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization
- Civilization: The West and the Rest
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
- Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
- The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
- Self-Made Man: Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction
- The Decline of the West
- A History of Civilizations
- Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
- The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming
- Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
- The Medium is the Message
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- The Technological Society
- The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about
- America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- The Idea of History
- A History of the Middle East
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century