All My Books (1972 through 2020.)
Think Tanks--1971
The Great American Ice Cream Book--1972
The Future of the Workplace--1975
The Electronic Battlefield--1976
The Mature Person's Guide to Kites, Yo-Yos, Frisbees and Other Childlike Diversions--1977
Out of This World: American Space Photography--1977
The Future File: A Guide for People with One Foot in the 21st Century--1977
The Official Rules--1978
Chow: A Cook's Tour of Military Food--1978
The Official Explanations--1980
Toasts--1981
Words--1982
There are Alligators in the Sewers & Other American Credos (With Joseph C. Goulden)--1983
Jokes--1984
On Our Own: A Declaration of Independence for the Self-Employed--1985
Names--1986
The Library in America--1986
Family words: The Dictionary for People who Don't know a *Frone from a *Brinkle--1988
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary--1989
The New Official Rules--1989
What Do You Call a Person From ....? A Dictionary of Resident Names--1990
Slang! The Topic-by-Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American Lingoes--1990 (updated and expanded--1998 and 2006)
Timelines: Day by Day and Trend by Trend from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Gulf War--1990
Baseball's Greatest Quotations--1991 ( updated and expanded in 2007)
Dickson's Word Treasury--1992
Dickson's Joke Treasury--1992
On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C. (With Douglas E. Evelyn)--1992 (Revised and Updated--1999 and revised again 2008)
Baseball: The President's Game (With William B. Mead)--1993
Myth-Informed (With Joseph C. Goulden)--1993
The Congress Dictionary: The Ways and Meanings of Capitol Hill (With Paul Clancy)--1993
War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases from the Civil War to the Gulf War--1994
The Worth Book of Softball--1994
The Book of Thanksgiving--1995
The Volvo Guide to Halls of Fame (With Robert Skole)--1995
The Joy of Keeping Score--1996
The Official Rules at Home--1996
The Official Rules at Work--1996
What's in a Name?--1996
The Official Rules for Lawyers, Politicians
and Everybody They Torment--1996
The Official Rules for Golfers--1997
Labels for Locals--1997
The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary--1999
From Elvis to E-Mail: Trends, Events, and Trivia from the Postwar Era to the End of the Century--1999
Firestone: A legend. A Century. A Celebration (With William D. Hickman)--2000
The Official Rules of Life--2000
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century--2001
The Hidden Language of Baseball--2003
War Slang (2nd edition, Updated to the present)--2003
The Bonus Army: An American Epic (With Thomas B Allen)--2005
Label For Locals: What to Call People From Abilene to Zimbabwe--2007
Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms--2007
The Joy Of Keeping Score--2007
Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret Language of Families--2007
The Dictionary Baseball Dictionary, Third Edition-- 2009
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball--2009
A Dictionary of the Space Age--2009
Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers Dictionary--2009
Toasts--2009
Baseball Is … Defining the National Pastime—2011
Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick—2012
Courage in the Moment: The Civil Rights Struggle, 1961-1964 (The Photographs of Jim Wallace)—2012
Golf is … Defining the Great Game—2012
Journalese: A Dictionary for Deciphering the News (with Robert Skole)—2012
Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Created by Presidents of the United States—2013
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects—November, 2013
Authorisms—Words Wrought by Writers -- April 2014
Contraband Cocktails--How America Drank When it Wasn't Supposed to.--March 2o15.
Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son --March, 2017.
The Hidden Language of Baseball (Expanded and Revised Edition)--September, 2019
The Rise of the G.I. Army: 1940-1941--July 2020.