Novels

• The History Of Luminous Motion London: Bloomsbury, 1989. ISBN 0-7475-0343-5
• What's Wrong With America New York: St. Martin's, 1994. ISBN 978-0-312-11349-0
• Animal Planet New York: Picador USA, 1995. ISBN 978-0-312-13428-0
• Good Girl Wants It Bad New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7867-1338-7
• The People Who Watched Her Pass By Columbus, Ohio: Two Dollar Radio, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9820151-5-5

Collections of Stories

• The Secret Life of Houses London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. ISBN 978-0-04-440241-1
• Dream of the Wolf New York: Knopf, 1990. ISBN 978-0-394-58213-9
• Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories New York: Picador USA, 1996. ISBN 978-0-312-14088-5
• Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7867-1576-3

Criticism

• Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-87745-395-6
• Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved: First presented as the Seymour Fischer Lecture at the Free University of Berlin, on January 17, 2001. It was revised and expanded and published in the Denver Quarterly Denver Quarterly and later reprinted online [1].