- A Sense of Where You Are — 1965
- The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield — 1966
- Oranges — 1967
- The Pine Barrens — 1968
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles — 1969
- Levels of the Game — 1969
- The Crofter and the Laird — 1970
- Encounters with the Archdruid — 1971
- Wimbledon: A Celebration — 1972
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed — 1973
- The Curve of Binding Energy — 1974
- Pieces of the Frame — 1975
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe — 1975
- The John McPhee Reader — 1976
- Coming into the Country — 1977
- Giving Good Weight — 1979
- Basin and Range — 1981
- In Suspect Terrain — 1983
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse — 1984
- Table of Contents — 1985
- Heirs of General Practice — 1986
- Rising from the Plains — 1986
- The Control of Nature — 1989
- Looking for a Ship — 1990
- Assembling California — 1993
- The Ransom of Russian Art — 1994
- The Second John McPhee Reader — 1996
- Irons in the Fire — 1997
- Annals of the Former World — 1998
- Coming into the Country — deeper McPhee: Annals of the Former World — 1998
- The Founding Fish — 2002
- Uncommon Carriers — 2006
- Silk Parachute — 2010
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process — 2017
- The Patch — 2018
- Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 — 2023
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