Novels
- Familiar Heat (Knopf, 1995)
- The Other Side of the River (in progress)
Novellas
- And Venus is Blue (Ticknor & Fields, 1986) – title story from the short story collection is the novella
- Seam Busters: A Novella (Story River Books, 2015)
Short story collections
- How Far She Went (University of Georgia Press, 1984)
- And Venus is Blue (Ticknor & Fields, 1986)
- A Clear View of the Southern Sky: Stories – foreword by Pat Conroy (Story River Books, 2015)
Forewords, contributing chapters, published essays
- Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee by Raymond Andrews – Foreword by Mary Hood (University of Georgia Press, Reprint, 1988)
- Why Stop? – Essay by Mary Hood (The Gettysburg Review, Winter 1988) (The Best American Essays, 1989)
- The Sacrilege of Alan Kent by Erskine Caldwell – Foreword by Mary Hood, Wood Engravings by Ralph Frizzell (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
- "Tropic of Conscience," an historical essay on Northwest Georgia for The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press 1996)
Anthologies containing work
- The Best American Essays (1989)
- Best American Short Stories
- Stories: Contemporary Southern Short Fiction edited by Donald Hays (1989)
- Editor's Choice
- Georgia Voices: Fiction edited by Hugh Ruppersburg (1992)
- Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers edited by Mary Ellis Gibson (1991)
- The Literary Dog: Great Contemporary Dog Stories edited by Jeanne Schinto (1990)
- New Stories from the South
- The Pushcart Prize Anthology
- Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway (1992, 3rd ed.)
Magazines featuring Hood's prose
- Art & Antiques
- Gray's Sporting Journal: The Bird Hunting Book (August 2000) with Clyde Edgerton, O. Victor Miller, Bailey White and John Yow
- Harper's Magazine
- North American Review
- Southern Magazine
Literary reviews featuring Hood's work
- The Georgia Review
- The Gettysburg Review
- Kenyon Review
- Ohio Review
- Yankee
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Interviews
- Wired for Books: Audio Interview with Mary Hood by Don Swaim (1987)
- North Georgia Oral History Series: Interview with Mary Hood by Dede Yow, Thomas A. Scott and Sallie Ellison Loy (Kennesaw State University Oral History Project 1999)
Many of Hood's work has been translated into Dutch, French, Japanese and Swedish.[16]
