Prophet against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel, with David Lester and Paul Buhle (Boston: Beacon Press, 2021). 

A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1650-1850, eds. Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias von Rossum (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) 

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (September, 2017) 

Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (Beacon Press/Verso, 2014). 

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Viking-Penguin 2012) 

The Slave Ship A Human History (Viking-Penguin 2007)

Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World, ed. with Emma Christopher and Cassandra Pybus (University of California Press 2007) 

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Beacon Press/Verso 2004)

The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon Press/Verso 2000), coauthor: Peter Linebaugh

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 1 (Pantheon Books 1989)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge University Press 1987)