- National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody (1974; with Doug Kenney); ISBN 978-1-59071-057-9
- National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody (1978; with John Hughes); ISBN 978-1-59071-037-1
- Modern Manners (1983); ISBN 978-0-87113-375-5
- The Bachelor Home Companion (1986); ISBN 978-0-87113-686-2
- Republican Party Reptile (1987); ISBN 978-0-87113-622-0
- Holidays in Hell (1989); ISBN 978-0-8021-3701-2
- Parliament of Whores (1991); ISBN 978-0-8021-3970-2
- Give War a Chance (1992); ISBN 978-0-679-74201-2
- All the Trouble in the World (1994); ISBN 978-0-87113-611-4
- Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1995); ISBN 978-0-87113-653-4
- The American Spectator’s Enemies List (1996); ISBN 978-0-87113-632-9
- Eat the Rich (1999); ISBN 978-0-87113-760-9
- The CEO of the Sofa (2001); ISBN 978-0-8021-3940-5
- Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism (2004); ISBN 978-0-8021-4198-9
- On the Wealth of Nations: Books That Changed the World (2007); ISBN 978-0-8021-4342-6
- Driving Like Crazy (2009); ISBN 978-0-8021-1883-7
- Don’t Vote! – It Just Encourages the Bastards (2010) ISBN 978-0-8021-1960-5
- Holidays in Heck (2011); ISBN 978-0-8021-1985-8
- The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again) (2014) ISBN 978-0-8021-2197-4
- Thrown Under the Omnibus (2015); ISBN 978-0-8021-2366-4
- How the Hell Did This Happen? The Election of 2016 (2017); ISBN 978-0802126191
- None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He’s Not Rich and Neither Are You (2018); ISBN 978-0-8021-2848-5
- A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land (2020); ISBN 978-0-8021-5773-7
