Spufford, Francis. 2017. True Stories and Other Essays. London/New Haven CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300230055
Spufford, Francis. 2016. Golden Hill. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571225194
Spufford, Francis. 2013. Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense. London, UK: Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571225224
Spufford, Francis. 2012. Red Plenty. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555976040
Spufford, Francis. 2003. The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin. Faber. ISBN 9780571214969
Spufford, Francis. 2002. The Child That Books Built. Faber. ISBN 9780571214679
Spufford, Francis. 1996. I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571144877
Spufford, Francis. 1989. The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0701134877
Edited Book
Spufford, Francis and Kolbert, Elizabeth, eds. 2007. The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. Granta Books. ISBN 978-1862079779
Spufford, Francis and Uglow, Jenny, eds. 1997. Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571172436