• O. Henry Award, for the short story "Fleur" (published in Esquire, August 1986) (1987)
• Pushcart Prize in Poetry
• Western Literacy Association Award
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, for Love Medicine (1984)
• World Fantasy Award, for The Antelope Wife (1999)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (2000).
• Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, 2005
• Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, for the children's book "The Game of Silence" (2006)
• In April 2007 the University of North Dakota awarded Erdrich an honorary doctorate, but she refused it because of her opposition to that university's North Dakota Fighting Sioux mascot.
• In June 2009, received an honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College upon giving the 2009 Graduation Commencement Address

Fiction

Novels

• Love Medicine (1984)
• The Beet Queen (1986)
• Tracks (1988)
• The Crown of Columbus [with Michael Dorris] (1991)
• The Bingo Palace (1994)
• Tales of Burning Love (1997)
• The Antelope Wife (1998)
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001)
• The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003)
• Four Souls (2004)
• The Painted Drum (2005)
• The Plague of Doves (Harper, 2008)
• Shadow Tag (Harper, 2010)

Story collections

• The Red Convertible: Collected and New Stories 1978-2008 (2009)

Children's literature

• Grandmother's Pigeon (1996)
• The Birchbark House (1999)
• The Range Eternal (2002)
• The Game of Silence (2005)
• The Porcupine Year (2008)

Poetry

• Jacklight (1984)
• Baptism of Desire (1989)
• Original Fire: Selected and New Poems (2003)

Non-fiction

• Route Two [with Michael Dorris] (1990)
• The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birthyear (1995)
• Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (2003)

As editor or contributor

• The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris (Foreword) (1989)
• The Best American Short Stories 1993 (Editor, with Katrina Kenison) (1993)

Stories

• "The Reptile Garden", a short story in The New Yorker (28 January 2008)
• "The Fat Man's Race", a short story in The New Yorker (3 November 2008)

Interviews

• Interview with Louise Erdrich on BookSense
• A conversation with Louise Erdrich from The Atlantic
• Lannan Readings and Conversations - Louise Erdrich with Gail Caldwell
• Interview on Democracy Now - YouTube

Reviews

• Bookreporter.com review of The Painted Drum
• Blood Relations review of The Plague of Doves in The New York Review of Books
• NPR - Louise Erdrich and The Painted Drum by Martha Woodroof
• Harper Collins reading guide for The Painted Drum