- Vinegar pie and chicken bread: A woman's diary of life in the rural South, 1890-1891 (The President's series in Arkansas and regional studies)
- Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility
- Things You Need to Hear: Collected Memories of Growing Up in Arkansas, 1890–1980
- Kaleidoscope: Redrawing an American Family Tree
- During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006