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• A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978
• Agee with Ross Spears, Holt Rinehart, 1985
• Anna Freud:The Dream of Psychoanalysis, Addison-Wesley, 1992
• A Robert Coles Omnibus, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1988
• A Spectacle unto the World: The Catholic Worker Movement, Text by Robert Coles, Photographs by Jon Erikson, The Viking Press, New York, 1973
• Breaking the Cycle: Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect, with Pamela Fong, Norton, 1992
Children of Crisis Series
• Children of Crisis 1: A Study of Courage andFear, 1967
• Children of Crisis II: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, 1972
• Children of Crisis III: The South Goes North, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1972
• Children of Crisis IV: Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians, 1978
• Children of Crisis V: Privileged Ones, 1978
• Conversations with Robert Coles, Edited by Jay Woodruff and Sarah Carew Woodruff, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 1992
• Dead End School, Atlantic Little Brown, 1968
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maryknoll, Orbis Books, 1998
• Doing Documentary Work - book published in 1997 by Oxford University Press from series of lectures given at the New York Public Library
• Dorothea Lange:Photographs of Lifetime, Aperture, 1982
• Dorothy Day:A Radical Devotion, Addison-Wesley Press, 1987
• Drugs and Youth, with Joseph Brenner and Dermot Meagher, Liveright Publishing, 1970
• Erik Erikson: The Growth of His Work, Atlantic Little Brown, 1970
• Farewell to the South, Atlantic Little Brown, 1972
• Flannery O'Connor's South, Louisiana State University Press, 1980
• Harvard Diary Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular, Crossroads, New York 1988, reprinted 1996
• Headsparks, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown, Boston, MA 1975
• Hope, Photographs edited with Alice Rose George, Thames and Hudson, 1998
• I Will Always Stay Me: Writings of Migrant Children, Co-edited with Sherry Kafka, Texas Monthly Press, 1982
• In the Streets, with Helen Leavitt, Duke University Press, 1987
• Irony in the Mind's Life: Essays on Novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen and George Eliot, University of Virginia Press, 1974
• Old and on Their Own, text by Robert Coles, photographic essay by Alex Harris and Thomas Roma, Center for Documentary Studies and W.W. Norton, New York, NY. 1997
• Riding Free, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown, Boston, MA. 1973
• Rumors of Separate Worlds, poems, University of Iowa Press, 1989
• Saving Face, Atlantic Little Brown, 1972
• School, text by Robert Coles, photograpic essay by Nicholas Nixon, A Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1998
• Sex and the American Teenager, Harper & Row, 1985
• Simone Weil:A Modern Pilgrimage, Radcliffe Biography Series, A Merloyd Lawrence Book, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Reading, MA. 1987
• Still Hungry in America, World Publishing, New American Library, 1969
• Teachers and the Children of Poverty, The Potomac Institute, 1970
• That Red Wheelbarrow:Selected Literary Essays, University of Iowa Press, 1988
• The Buses Roll, with Carol Baldwin, Norton, 1974
• The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA. 1993
• The Call of Stories:Teaching and the Moral Imagination, A Peter Davison Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1989
• The Child in Our Times: Studies in the Development of Resiliency, (edited with TImothy Dugan) Brunner-Mazel, 1989
• The Darkness and the Light, with Doris Ulmann, Aperture, 1974
• The Doctor Stories of William Carlos Williams, editor Robert Coles, New Directions, 1984
• The Geography of Faith: Conversations Between Daniel Berrigan, When Underground and Robert Coles Beacon Press, 1971
• The Grass Pipe, An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown, Boston, MA. 1969
• The Image is You, Houghton Mifflin, 1969
The Inner Lives of Children Series:
• The Moral Life of Children, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1986
• The Spiritual Life of Children, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990
• Their Eyes Meeting the World: The Drawings and Paintings of Children, Robert Coles, Edited by Margaret Sartor, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1992
• The Last and First Eskimos, with Alex Harris, New York Graphic Society, 1978
• The Middle Americans, with Jon Erikson, Atlantic Little Brown, 1972
• The Mind's Fate:Ways of Seeing Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Atlantic Back Bay Books, Little Brown, Boston, MA. 1975, reprinted 1995
• The Moral Intelligence of Children, Random House, New York, 1997
• The Old Ones of new Mexico, with Alex Harris, University of New Mexico Presss, 1973
• The Political Life of Children, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986
• The Secular Mind, Princeton University Press, 1999
• The Students Themselves, Schenkman Books, 1974
• The Youngest Parents, text by Robert Coles, Robert E. Coles, Daniel A. Coles and Michael H. Coles, photgraphic essay by Jocelyn Lee and John Moses, Center for Documentary Studies and W.W. Norton, New York, NY. 1997
• Times of Surrender: Selected Essays, University of Iowa Press, 1988
• Twelve to Sixteen: Early Adolescence, with Jerome Kagan, Norton, 1972
• Uprooted Children:The Early Lives of Migrant Farmers, University of Pittsburgh, 1970
• Wages of Neglect, with Maria Piers, Photographs by Stephen L. Feldman, Quadrangle Books, Chicago, IL. 1969
• Walker Percy: An American Search, Atlantic Little Brown, 1978
• William Carlos Williams: The Knack of Survival in America, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 1975, 1983
• Women of Crisis I Lives of Struggle and Hope, (with Jane Hallowell Coles) Delacorte Seymour Lawrence, 1978
• Women of Crisis II Lives of Work and Dreams, (with Jane Hallowell Coles) Delacorte, 1980