Books:
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)
Tent Life: Haiti (essay contributor, 2011)
Haiti Noir (anthology editor, 2011)
Best American Essays, 2011 (anthology editor, October 2011)
Claire of the Sea Light (novel, August 2013)
Mama’s Nightingale (picture book, upcoming September 1, 2015)
Untwine (young adult novel, upcoming October 2015) 
Short stories:
- “The Book of the Dead”. The New Yorker: 194–. 21 June 1999.
- “Ghosts”. The New Yorker 84(38): 108–113. 24 November 2008. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
- “Quality Control”. The Washington Post. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015
Film:
- Poto Mitan – Writer/Narrator, 2009
- Girl Rising (Haiti) – Writer/Narrator, 2013