| 1965 | The Efficient Allocation of Resources in Education | [no publisher recorded] | Open Library |
| 1966 | Across the Continent✓ | University Microfilms, Ann Arbor [Mich | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1967 | Equality of Educational Opportunity✓ | [s.n.], [s.l.] | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1969 | Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth✓ | Harvard U.P. | Open Library · Open Library |
| 1970 | Notes and Problems in Microeconomic Theory✓ | Markham Pub. Co, Chicago | Open Library · Open Library |
| 1973 | I.Q. in the U.S. Class Structure✓ | Warner Modular Publications, Andover, Mass | Open Library |
| 1976 | Schooling in capitalist America — Educational reform and the contradictions of economic life | Routledge and K. Paul, London | BnF catalogue record cb353851508 · SUDOC record 15835155X |
| 1982 | Beyond the Waste Land✓ | Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1984 | Beyond the Wasteland | Verso Books | Open Library |
| 1985 | Understanding Capitalism✓ — Competition, Command, and Change in the U.S. Economy | Harper and Row, New York | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1986 | Democracy & Capitalism✓ | Basic Books Inc.,U.S. | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1986 | Democracy and Capitalism✓ — Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought | Basic Books, New York | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1989 | Unconventional Wisdom✓ | Houghton-Mifflin, Boston | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1990 | After the Waste Land✓ — A Democratic Economics for the Year 2000 | M. E. Sharpe, Armonk (N.Y.) | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1990 | Radical Political Economy✓ | E. Elgar, Aldershot, Hants, England | Open Library · Library of Congress record |
| 1991 | The Parks and Mountains of Colorado✓ — A Summer Vacation in the Switzerland of America, 1868 | University of Oklahoma Press, Norman | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1993 | Markets and Democracy✓ | Cambridge University Press | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1998 | Recasting Egalitarianism✓ | New York, England | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1998 | Teaching Political Economy✓ — an instructor's manual to accompany Bowles/Edwards: Understanding capitalism: competition, command, and change in the U.S. economy | Harper & Row, New York | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 1998 | The Politics and Economics of Power | Taylor & Francis Group | Open Library |
| 1999 | Meritocracy and Economic Inequality✓ | Princeton University Press | Open Library |
| 2004 | Foundations of Human Sociality✓ | Oxford University Press | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2004 | Microeconomics✓ — Behavior, Institutions and Evolution | Russell Sage Foundation, New York | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2005 | Unequal Chances✓ | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2006 | Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution✓ | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ | Open Library · Open Library |
| 2006 | Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability✓ | Princeton University Press | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2006 | Moral Sentiments and Material Interests✓ | MIT Press | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2006 | Poverty Traps✓ | Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY | Open Library · Open Library |
| 2011 | A Cooperative Species✓ | Princeton University Press, Princeton | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2012 | New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution | Cambridge University Press | Open Library |
| 2016 | The Moral Economy✓ — Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens | Yale University Press, New Haven | Open Library · WorldCat record |
| 2018 | Later Papers: Supplement to the Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield Republican — In Spirit Life or Life as He Now Sees It from a Spiritual Stand-Point | Creative Media Partners, LLC | Open Library |
| 2020 | Switzerland of America | HardPress | Open Library |
| 2022 | Springfield Memories | Creative Media Partners, LLC | Open Library |
| 2023 | Our New West — Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean; over the Plains--Over the Mountains--Through the Great Interior Basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and Down the Pacific Coast; with Details of the Wonderful Natu | Creative Media Partners, LLC | Open Library |
| 2023 | Summer Vacation in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado | Creative Media Partners, LLC | Open Library |