• Growing up Rich Little, Brown, 1975, ISBN 9780316091886 (Edward Lewis Wallant Award)
• Professor Romeo reprint, University Press of New England, 1997, ISBN 9780874518092(a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”)
• Trophy House, Simon and Schuster, 2005, ISBN 9780743288583

• What If? (with Pamela Painter) HarperCollins Publishers, 1990, ISBN 9780062700384
• The Language of Names (with Justin Kaplan) Simon & Schuster, 1999, ISBN 9780684838670
• Back Then (with Justin Kaplan). reprint HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 9780060958053

The book ends in 1959, with Bernays and Kaplan, married and the parents of two small daughters, leaving Manhattan for Cambridge, Mass., he to work on a biography of Mark Twain, she to write her first novel. The New York they leave behind, one that New York itself had left behind, was something unmatchable anywhere in the world.