LaGuardia in Congress (Cornell University Press, 1959)
The Southern Mystique (Alfred Knopf, 1964)
SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Beacon Press, 1964)
New Deal Thought, ed. (Bobbs Merrill, 1965)
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (Beacon Press, 1967)
Disobedience and Democracy (Random House, 1968)
The Politics of History (Beacon Press, 1970)
The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays, ed. with Noam Chomsky (Beacon Press, 1972)
Postwar America (Bobbs Merrill, 1973)
Justice in Everyday Life, ed. (William Morrow, 1974)
A People’s History of the United States (Harper & Row, 1980)
The Twentieth Century: A People’s History (HarperCollins, 1984)
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (HarperCollins, 1990)
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian (Common Courage Press, 1993)
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994)
Terrorism and War with Anthony Arnove (Seven Stories Press, 2002)
Artits in Times of War (Seven Stories Press, 2003)
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights, 2006)
A Young People’s History of the United States (Seven Stories Press, 2007, 2009)
The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press, 1997, 2009)
Voices of a Peoples History of the United States with Anthony Arnove (Seven Stories Press, 2004, 2009)
The Bomb (City Lights, 2010)
Howard Zinn on War (Seven Stories Press, 2001, 2011)
Howard Zinn on History (Seven Stories, 2001, 2011)
Howard Zinn on Race (Seven Stories, 2011)