Ha vinto due American Book Awards: nel 1993 per Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball e nel 1999 per Hip Hop America: Hip Hop and the Molding of Black Generation X[1].
Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball (1992)
Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture (1993)
Blackface: Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies (1994)
Seduced (1996)
One Woman Short (2001)
Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God (2001)
Show & Tell (2002)
The Death of Rhythm and Blues (2003)
Night Work: A Novel (2003)
Hip Hop America (2005)
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes) (2005)
Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound (2007)
The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul (2008)
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (2009)
Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson (2010)
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (2011)
The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style (2014)
The Lost Treasures of R&B (2015)
The Accidental Hunter (2015)
The Darkest Hearts (2020)
The Nelson George Mixtape Volume 1 (2021)
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