Books include * Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything (2014) * Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005) * Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) * Kipper's Game, fiction (1993) * For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women (with Deirdre English) (1978)