fiction:
Lovers and Tyrants, Simon and Schuster, 1976 World Without End, Simon and Schuster, 1981 October Blood, Simon and Schuster, 1985 The Queen's Lover,The Penguin Press, 2012
non-fiction:
Divine Disobedience, Knopf, 1970 Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress, Random House, 1972 Adam & Eve and the City, Simon and Schuster, 1987 Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, Doubleday, 1990 Rage and Fire - A Life of Louise Colet, Simon and Schuster, 1994 At Home with the Marquis de Sade, Penguin Books, 1999 Simone Weil (Penguin Lives), Viking Penguin, 2001 Them; A Memoir of Parents, The Penguin Press, 2005 Madame de Stael - The First Modern Woman, Atlas & Co., 2008