Story collections

• Things That Fall from the Sky (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002, ISBN 0-375-42134-3)
• The View From The Seventh Layer (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008, ISBN 0-375-42530-6)

Novels

• The Truth About Celia (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003, ISBN 0-375-42135-1)
• The Brief History of the Dead (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006, ISBN 0-375-42369-9)

For younger readers

• City of Names (Viking, 2002)
• Grooves: A Kind of Mystery (New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2006, ISBN 0-06-073691-7)

Miscellaneous stories

• "The Brief History of the Dead" (published in The New Yorker September 8, 2003; used as the first chapter of the novel by the same name)

Anthologies as Editor

• Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3, edited by Kevin Brockmeier (Portland, Underland Press, scheduled January 2010, ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9).

Featuring stories by: Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Goldstein, Paul Tremblay, Will Clarke, Thomas Glave, John Kessel, Kellie Wells, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, Deborah Scwartzand, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams.

• O. Henry Award (2002 for the short story "The Ceiling")
• Nelson Algren Award
• Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award
• James Michener—Paul Engle Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient