- The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water (A Sierra Club Books Publication)
- Mystery of the Nile: The Epic Story of the First Descent of the World's Deadliest River
- First Descents: In Search of Wild Rivers
- Rivergods: Exploring the World's Great Wild Rivers
- Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth