• 1976-77 Eliot Coleman Award for prose from Johns Hopkins University for his short story, “Storyteller.”
• 1979, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination for, Elroy Nights,

• "Driver", The Barcelona Review

Story Collections

• Rangoon 1970.
• Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
• Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
• The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.

Novels (fiction)

• War and War 1971.
• Second Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
• Tracer New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
• Two Against One New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
• Natural Selection New York: Viking, 1989.
• The Brothers New York: Viking, 1993.
• Painted Desert New York: Viking, 1995.
• Bob the Gambler Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
• Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
• Waveland New York: Doubleday, 2009.

Memoirs (non-fiction)

• (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Screenplays

• Second Marriage 1985.
• Tracer 1986.