Works
- A Sense of Where You Are (1965) ISBN 0-374-51485-2
- The Headmaster (1966) ISBN 0-374-16860-1
- Oranges (1967) ISBN 0-374-22688-1
- The Pine Barrens (1968) ISBN 0-374-23360-8.
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles ISBN 0-374-51501-8 (collection, 1969)
- Levels of the Game (1969) ISBN 0-374-51526-3. Explores the relationship between two champion tennis players.
- The Crofter and the Laird (1969) ISBN 0-374-13192-9
- Encounters with the Archdruid (1971) ISBN 0-374-14822-8.
- The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed (1973) ISBN 0-374-51635-9. Story of the Aereon, a combination aerodyne/aerostat, a.k.a. hybrid airship.
- The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) ISBN 0-374-13373-5 —finalist for the National Book Award
- Pieces of the Frame (collection, 1975) ISBN 0-374-51498-4
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe (1975) ISBN 0-374-27207-7
- The John McPhee Reader (collection, 1977) ISBN 0-374-17992-1
- Coming into the Country (1977) ISBN 0-374-52287-1
- Giving Good Weight (collection, 1979) ISBN 0-374-16306-5
- Basin and Range (1981) ISBN 0-374-10914-1. Republished in Annals of the Former World. —finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- In Suspect Terrain (1983) ISBN 0-374-17650-7. Republished in Annals of the Former World.
- La Place de la Concorde Suisse (1984) ISBN 0-374-51932-3
- Table of Contents (collection, 1985) ISBN 0-374-52008-9
- Rising from the Plains (1986) ISBN 0-374-25082-0. Republished in Annals of the Former World. —finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- Heirs of General Practice (1986) ISBN 0-374-51974-9
- The Control of Nature (1989) ISBN 0-374-12890-1
- Looking for a Ship (1990) ISBN 0-374-19077-1 —finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- Assembling California (1993) ISBN 0-374-52393-2. Republished in Annals of the Former World.
- The Ransom of Russian Art (1994) ISBN 0-374-24682-3
- The Second John McPhee Reader (1996) ISBN 0-374-52463-7
- Irons in the Fire (1997) ISBN 0-374-17726-0
- Annals of the Former World (1998) ISBN 0-374-10520-0. Compilation of five stories on geology. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
- The Founding Fish (2002) ISBN 0-374-10444-1
- The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish (2004) ISBN 1-886967-14-8 (limited edition)
- Uncommon Carriers (2006) ISBN 0-374-28039-8
- Silk Parachute (2010) ISBN 0-374-26373-7
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