| Holy land: A suburban memoir DJ Waldie WW Norton & Company, 2005 | 208 | 2005 |
| Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles DJ Waldie Angel City Press, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| Do the voters really hate sprawl DJ Waldie New York Times 3, 2000 | 16 | 2000 |
| Close to home: an American album DJ Waldie Getty Publications, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |
| Holy land DJ Waldie New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996 | 12 | 1996 |
| Pornography of despair DJ Waldie Rev. of Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis. Salon 21, 1998 | 10 | 1998 |
| " An Assemblage of Habits": DJ Waldie and Neil Campbell—A Suburban Conversation DJ Waldie, N Campbell Western American Literature 46 (3), 228-249, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| Ordinary Time: The Making of a Catholic Imagination DJ Waldie Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 7 (1), 58-67, 2007 | 7 | 2007 |
| Reclaiming a Lost River, Building a Community DJ Waldie New York Times 10, 2002 | 7 | 2002 |
| “The compass of possibilities”: Re-Mapping the Suburbs of Los Angeles in the Writings of DJ Waldie N Campbell European journal of American studies 6 (6-3), 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| LA’s crooked heart DJ Waldie Los Angeles Times 24, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Beautiful and Terrible: Aeriality and the Image of Suburbia DJ Waldie Places Journal, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Los Angeles’ toilet-to-tap fear factor DJ Waldie Los Ange les Times, 2002 | 5 | 2002 |
| Rereading, Misreading, and Redeeming the Golden State: Defining California through History DJ Waldie A Companion to California History, 22-39, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
| Forget earthquake, think flood: Why Los Angeles is hostage to an ecology of denial DJ Waldie Los Angeles Times 15, 3, 1999 | 4 | 1999 |
| Changing the river’s course DJ Waldie Los Angeles Times, 1999 | 4 | 1999 |
| An Ordinary Place DJ Waldie Los Angeles Now, 2005 | 3 | 2005 |
| 15 Minutes with DJ Waldie: The Bard of Lakewood DJ Waldie Interview with Hilary Kaplan. Kids and Cities. Spec. issue of The Next …, 2004 | 3 | 2004 |
| A Necessary City DJ Waldie LA Weekly 6, 2002 | 3 | 2002 |
| Falling in love with where you are DJ Waldie New Geography, 2013 | 2 | 2013 |
