Carter là tác giả của nhiều cuốn sách:

• Why Not the Best? (1975 - 1996)
• A Government as Good as Its People (1977 - 1996)
• Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982 - 1995)
• Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility (1984)
• The Blood of Abraham (1985 - 1993)
• Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life (1987 - 1995), với Rosalynn Carter
• An Outdoor Journal (1988 - 1994)
• Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age (1992)
• Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation (1993 - 1995)
• Always a Reckoning (1995), tập thơ, được minh hoa bởi cháu gái
• The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer (1995), được sách thiếu nhi, minh họa bởi con gái
• Living Faith (1996)
• Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (1997)
• The Virtues of Aging (1998)
• An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001)
• Christmas in Plains: Memories (2001)
• The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2002)
• The Hornet's Nest (2003), cuốn tiểu thuyết lịch sử đầu tiên được viết bởi 1 Tổng thống Hoa Kỳ
• Sharing Good Times (2004)
• Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (2005)
• Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (2006)
• Beyond the White House (2007)
• We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land (2009)
• White House Diary (2010)
• A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power (2014)
• A Full Life: Reflections at 90 (2015)
• Faith: A Journey for All (2018)