[2] Tichi has published twelve books that span American popular culture and social history, from television to country music to the gear-and-girder technology that transformed the environment nationwide in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
[2] Tichi has conducted research related to English Literature and has authored several fiction and non-fiction books based on American popular culture and social history.
David Leverenz reviewed that the book "usefully calls attention to the American connection between landscape and millennium" and that "specialists will value chapters on Johnson and Barlow".
According to Ruth Banes from University of South Florida, "this book is path-breaking, the first to explore themes in country music as they parallel American art and literature".
Daniel Burnstein reviewed that "Tichi provides an excellent broad introduction to many aspects of that era and the Gilded Age that preceded it" and that the book "is an accurate and thoughtful synthesis, steeped in impressive research in both primary and secondary sources".
[11] The book is also reviewed as a "beautifully written assemblage of mini-biographies" that is "a welcome and crucially necessary addition" for the democracy; and as a "deeply significant, and compellingly passionate civic wake-up call".
"[13] Alida Becker from New York Times Book Review stated that "A new etiquette guide, by Cecelia Tichi, has just turned up, offering further proof that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as informative as it is entertaining.
Her books Jealous Heart and Cryin' Times were published in 1999 and the latter is reviewed as "carefully crafted and thoroughly detailed" and "A delightful new voice in Southern mystery".
[15] Tichi's third book in Kate Banning Mysteries called, Fall to Pieces, was published in 2000, and was reviewed as "An action-packed page turner with heart".