Author:Charles Nordhoff

As author

 * Man-of-War Life: a Boy's Experience in the U. S. Navy, largely autobiographical (Cincinnati, 1855)
 * The Merchant Vessel (1855)
 * Whaling and Fishing (1855; new edition, 1903)
 * Nine Years as a Sailor (1857)
 * Stories from the Island World (New York, 1857)
 * Secession Is Rebellion: the Union Indissoluble (1860)
 * The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance, Character, Condition, and Customs (1863)
 * America for Free Working Men! (1865)
 * Cape Cod and All Along Shore, a collection of stories (1868)
 * California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence (1873)
 * Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands (1874)
 * Politics for Young Americans (1875) Later adopted as a school textbook, Nordhoff's Politics
 * The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
 * The Cotton States in the Spring and Summer of 1875 (1876)
 * God and the Future Life (1881)
 * A Guide to California, the Golden State (1883)
 * The merchant vessel - a sailor boy's voyages around the world (1884)
 * Peninsular California (1888)

As editor

 * Practical Landscape Gardening, editor (Cincinnati, 1855)