Tuszynska collected materials for this book in the United States, Israel, France, and in Polish small towns and villages.
Tuszynska continued her interest in the vanishing world of the Polish Jews in the volume of Israeli reports Portraits with Poland in the Background,[4] also published in the French translation.
In her next book, The Long Life of a Temptress,[6] published in 1999 Tuszynska returned to Krzywicka's story after her death.
A Family History of Fear,[7] Tuszynska's bestseller, released in March 2005, and nominated for the Prix Medicis, is a dramatic and complex story about the fate of her Polish and Jewish ancestors.
A story of her struggle with her husband's cancer is the subject of Exercises of Loss,[8] very intimate book by Agata Tuszynska (2007), also published in French (Grasset, 2009) and Korean (2012).
The book, based on conversations with Gran, supplemented by witness accounts and opinions, documents, archives and court testimony, has become a multidimensional treatise on the tragic choices, their moral consequences and the price to pay for salvation.
It tells the story about the last period of Tyrmand’s life, the author of Zły (published in English as The Man With White Eyes), alongside his American wife – Mary Ellen Fox.
In The Fiancé of Bruno Schulz (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2015) she presents an extraordinary literary story, connecting dramatic elements of love and war.
Po Marcu is a polyphonic story about the generation of post-March emigrants who left Poland with a “travel document” stating that its holder is no longer a citizen of the country.
Co-written with the participants of a History Meeting House seminar: Dorota Barczak-Perfikowska, Grażyna Latos, Elżbieta Strzałkowska, and Wiola Wejman.
The newest Mama zawsze wraca based on the memories of a Holocaust survivor, is a moving story of a girl hidden for many months in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Beautifully illustrated by Iwona Chmielewska the book is a testimony of the saving power of love and imagination.
An omnipresent character of this and other books by Tuszynska is MEMORY, its painful ties, mysterious shapes, variable appearances.
In 2016 – the Canadian Jewish Literary Award in a category of Holocaust Literature for "Family History of Fear".
Paris: Noir sur Blanc 2002 Une histoire familiale de la peur (Rodzinna historia lęku), transl.
Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle 2006 Exercices de la perte (Ćwiczenia z utraty), transl.
Isabelle Jannès-Kalinowski, Éditions de l'antilope 2020 Die Sängerin aus dem Ghetto, trans.
Íñigo Sánchez Paños, Elena-Michelle Cano, Madrit: Alianza Literaria, 2011 Ćwiczenia z utraty, DD World, 2011 Vera Gran.