• Best Short story winner (1986): "Out of All Them Bright Stars"
• Best Novella winner (1991): "Beggars in Spain" (this is the 1991 Novella, not the 1993 novel of the same title)
• Best Novelette winner (1998): "Flowers of Aulit Prison"
• Best Novella winner (2007): "Fountain of Age"

• Best Novella winner (1992): "Beggars in Spain" (this is the 1991 Novella, not the 1993 novel of the same title)
• Best Novella winner (2009): "The Erdmann Nexus"
• Best Novella nominee (2010): "Act One"

• Best Novel second place (1994): Beggars in Spain (there was no first place award in 1994)
• Best Novel winner (2003): Probability Space

• Best Short Science Fiction winner (1997): "Flowers of Aulit Prison"

Series

• Beggars in Spain (1993)
• Beggars and Choosers (1994)
• Beggars Ride (1996)

• Probability Moon (2000)
• Probability Sun (2001)
• Probability Space (2002)

• Crossfire (2003)
• Crucible (2004)

• Oaths and Miracles (1996)
• Stinger (1998)

Novels

• Prince of the Morning Bells (1981)
• The Golden Grove (1984)
• The White Pipes (1985)
• The Price of Oranges (1985)
• An Alien Light (1987)
• Brainrose (1989)
• Maximum Light (1998)
• Yanked (1999) from David Brin's Out of Time series
• Nothing Human (2003)
• Dogs (2008)
• Steal Across the Sky (2009)

Collections

• Trinity and Other Stories (1984)
• The Aliens of Earth (1985)
• Beaker's Dozen (1998)
• Nano Comes to Clifford Falls (2008)

Non-Fiction: books about writing

• Beginnings, Middles & Ends (1986)
• Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated (1986)
• Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint (2005)