The best known of her books are "The Farmer's Year" (1933; a calendar of English husbandry), "Four Hedges - A Gardener's Chronicle" (1935; the development of a garden from a meadow she had bought in the Chilterns) and "Tempestuous Petticoat; The story of an Invincible Edwardian" (1948; describing her childhood and her bohemian mother). Autobiographical text and illustrations are available in "Clare Leighton: The growth and shaping of an artist-writer", published 2009. One of her most notable illustrative endeavors was creating 16 woodcuts for Thornton Wilder's illustrated edition of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (Longmans, Green and Company 1929).