The Works of Erma Bombeck

• At Wit’s End humor column, syndicated in 1965.
• At Wit's End (collection of columns), illustrated by Loretta Vollmuth, Doubleday, 1967.
• Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own, illustrated by B. Keane, Doubleday, 1971.
• I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, Doubleday, 1973.
• The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, McGraw, 1976.
• If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, McGraw, 1978.
• Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to Get from Monday to Friday ... in Twelve Days, McGraw, 1979.
• Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession, McGraw, 1983.
• Erma Bombeck Giant Economy Size, Doubleday, 1983.
• Laugh Along with Erma Bombeck, Fawcett, 1984.
• Four of a Kind: A Treasury of Favorite Works by America's Best-Loved Humorist (contains The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank; If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?; Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How to Get from Monday to Friday ... in Twelve Days, and Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession), McGraw, 1985.
• Best of Bombeck, Galahad Books, 1987.
• Family: The Ties That Bind ... and Gag!, McGraw, 1987.
• I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise: Children Surviving Cancer, Harper, 1989.
• When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, HarperCollins, 1991.
• A Marriage Made in Heaven ..., or, Too Tired for an Affair, HarperCollins, 1993.
• All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room, HarperCollins, 1995.
• Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writings from America's Favorite Humorist, Andrews & McMeel, 1996.
• Breast Cancer?: Let Me Check My Schedule!, edited by Peggy McCarthy and Joan Loren, Westview Press, 1997.
• Eat Less Cottage Cheese and More Ice Cream: Thoughts on Life from Erma Bombeck, Andrews McMeel, 2003.

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