Her first novel, Round Rock (Knopf 1997), follows a graduate student's reluctant path to sobriety at a drunk farm in rural California.
[1][2] Her third novel, Blame (2009), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
It portrays the journey of a young history professor after accidentally killing two people while driving drunk.
[5] Huneven co-authored the Tao Gals’ Guide to Real Estate (Bloomsbury 2006), a combination narrative and guidebook for women purchasing homes.
Her essays have appeared in the following anthologies: Horse People, Dog is My Co-Pilot, The Knitter's Gift, Death by Pad Thai, Mr. Wrong, and "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, sixteen writers on the decision not to have kids."