- The Divine Miss M (1972)
- Bette Midler (1973)
- Songs for the New Depression (1976)
- Broken Blossom (1977)
- Thighs and Whispers (1979)
- No Frills (1983)
- Some People's Lives (1990)
- Bette of Roses (1995)
- Bathhouse Betty (1998)
- Bette (2000)
- Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook (2003)
- Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook (2005)
- Cool Yule (2006)
- It's the Girls! (2014)
- A View From A Broad (Simon & Schuster, 1980, Updated edition April 1, 2014)
- The Saga of Baby Divine (Crown Publishers, 1984), ISBN 978-0-517-55040-3
- Bette Midler, Outrageously Divine, an Unauthorized Biography, by Mark Bego (New American Library, 1987), ISBN 0-451-14814-2
- Bette: An Intimate Biography of Bette Midler, by George Mair (Birch Lane Press, 1995), ISBN 1-55972-272-X