Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books ("Eastern Exposure", "Dragon in the Kremlin", "The Volga", "Roots of Involvement", "Kissinger", "Campaign ’88", "The Nixon Memo" and "One Scandalous Story") and two best-selling novels ("In the National Interest" and "The Last Ambassador"). His book, "The Year I was Peter the Great", was published on October 10, 2017. Most recently, his book "Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy", was published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2018.