Biel S. Bonnie Parker Writes a Poem: How a Couple of Bungling Sociopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde. Now and Then Reader. 2012.

Biel S. Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster. New York: W.W. Norton; 2012.

Biel S. American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting. New York: W.W. Norton; 2005.

American Disasters. (Biel S). New York: New York University Press; 2001.

Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose. (Biel S). New York: W.W. Norton; 1998.

Biel S. Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945. New York: New York University Press; 1992.