• Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years. University Press of Kentucky. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8131-1365-4. (reprint 2008 ISBN 978-1-59740-420-4)
• The woman of the house: some themes in Irish-American fiction. Irish Studies Program, Northeastern University. 1985.
• Charles Fanning (1990). The Irish voice in America: 250 years of Irish-American fiction. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-1721-8. (second edition 2000 ISBN 978-0-8131-0970-1 )
• Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir. University of Massachusetts Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55849-810-5.

Editor

• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). The Face of Time. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03310-0.
• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). Father and Son. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07495-0.
• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). My Days of Anger. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03270-7.
• James T. Farrell (2007). Charles Fanning (ed.). No Star Is Lost. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07422-6.
• James Thomas Farrell (2007). Charles Fanning (ed.). A world I never made. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07423-3.
• John V. Kelleher (2002). Charles Fanning (ed.). Selected writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2482-8.
• Charles Fanning, ed. (2000). New perspectives on the Irish diaspora. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2344-9.
• James Thomas Farrell (1998). Charles Fanning (ed.). Chicago Stories. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01981-4.
• Charles Fanning, ed. (1997). The Exiles of Erin: nineteenth-century Irish-American fiction. Dufour Editions. ISBN 9780802313157.
• Finley Peter Dunne (1987). Charles Fanning (ed.). Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: the autobiography of a nineteenth-century ethnic group. Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-0650-9.

• "IRISH VOICES", Perspectives, Spring 2004
• Charles Fanning Collection of Audio Recordings, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections