Books

• Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition, University of North Carolina Press. 1981
• Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context, University of North Carolina Press. 1981
• A Guide to Book Publication for Historians (Washington, D. C.: American Historical Assn.), 1979, pamphlet, 40 pp.

Articles

• "President Samuel Johnson and the Circle of Knowledge," William and Mary Quarterly, XXVIII (April 1971), 199-236.
• "Solomon Stoddard's Library at Harvard in 1664," Harvard Library Bulletin (July 1972), 255-269.
• "Will and Intellect in the New England Mind," William and Mary Quarterly, XXIX (Oct. 1972), 515-558. (Best article award, William and Mary Quarterly, 1972).
• "A Reply to George Steiner," Visible Language, VI (Summer, 1972), 218-222.
• "Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXVII (April 1976), 195-218.
• "Editing the Historian's First Book," The Maryland Historian, VII (Spring 1976), 61-69.
• "The Transatlantic Republic of Letters: A Note on the Circulation of Learned Periodicals to Early Eighteenth-Century America," William and Mary Quarterly, XXXIII (Oct. 1976), 642-660.
• "Early American Philosophy vs. Philosophy in Early America," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, XIII (Summer 1977), 216-237.
• "Benjamin Franklin and the Way to Virtue," American Quarterly, XXX (July 1978), 199-223.
• "The First American Enlightenment: Tillotson, Leverett, and Philosophical Anglicanism," New England Quarterly, LIV (Sept. 1981), 307-334. (Winner of the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize, Col. Society of Massachusetts).
• "Comment on Thomas Tanselle's, 'The Bibliography and Textual Study of American Books," American Antiquarian Society Proceedings, XCV, Part I (Worcester, Mass.), 1985, 152-160.
• "The Rationalist Foundations of Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics," in Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (Oxford U. Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-19-506077-5
• "Philosophy" in the three-volume Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, ed. Jacob E. Cooke (New York, 1993).

Edited

• Edward G. Gray; Norman Fiering, eds. (2000). The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-210-0.
• Paolo Bernardini; Norman Fiering, eds. (2001). The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-430-2.
• David Patrick Geggus; Norman Fiering, eds. (2009). The World of the Haitian Revolution. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35232-3.

• "Author's website"
• "The New England Mind Revisited", Virginia Quarterly Review, Philip F. Gura, Summer 1982
• "Interview with Norman Fiering", Daniel J. Slive, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, VI, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 124-140.
• "'Tremendous Satisfaction from Helping People to Pursue Their Research,' An Interview with Norman Fiering," Jaap Jacobs, Itinerario, XXVIII, no. 2 (2004), pp. 7–13