Poetry
- The Fever of Being. West End Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-931122-78-1.
- Ghost Sickness. Cinco Puntos Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-938317-30-2.
- Vatos. José Galvez, Josae Galvez (photog.). Cinco Puntos Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-938317-52-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
- "Walking Backwards in the Dark". Virginia Quarterly Review. Spring 2007.
- Tijuana Book of the Dead. Soft Skull Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1619024823
Short Stories
- Six Kinds of Sky. Cinco Puntos Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-938317-63-0. Luis Alberto Urrea.
- The Water Museum. Little, Brown and Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0316334372
Novels
- In Search of Snow. University of Arizona Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8165-2015-2.
- The Hummingbird's Daughter. Little, Brown and Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-316-74546-8.
- Into the Beautiful North. Little, Brown and Company. 2009. ISBN 978-0-316-02527-0.
- Queen of America. Little, Brown and Company. 2011. ISBN 978-0-316-15486-4.
- The House of Broken Angels. Little, Brown and Company. March 2018. ISBN 978-0-316-15488-8.
- Good Night, Irene: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company. May 2023. ISBN 978-0-316-265850.
Memoirs
- Wandering Time: Western Notebooks. University of Arizona Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8165-1866-1.
- Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life. University of Arizona Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8165-2270-5.
Non-Fiction
- Across the wire: life and hard times on the Mexican border. John Lueders-Booth (photog.). Anchor Books. 1993. ISBN 978-0-385-42530-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
- By the Lake of Sleeping Children. Anchor Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-385-48419-0.
- The Devil's Highway. Little, Brown and Company. 2004. ISBN 978-0-316-74671-7.
Interviews
- "On Standing at Neruda's Tomb: An interview with Martín Espada". Poetry Foundation. 2006.
