- Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America (1994)
- Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft (2001)
- The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth (2004)
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (2006)
- Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir (2008)
Audio Books
- No Limits: The Zen of Creativity (1998)
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (1999)
- The Long Quiet Highway: A Memoir on Zen in America and the Writing Life (2000)