Parris, John. "Fontana Lake Hides Much Local History." The Asheville Citizen (1984).

Parris, John, and Dorothy Luxton Parris. Mountain Cooking. Citizen-Times Publishing Company, 1978.

Parris, John. These Storied Mountains. Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing Company, 1972.

Parris, John. Mountain Bred. Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing Company, 1967.

Parris, John. "Hazel Creek Area a Wilderness?" The Asheville Citizen (1960).

Parris, John, and Dorothy Luxton Parris. My Mountains, My People. Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing Company, 1957.

Parris, John. Roaming the Mountains. Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing Company, 1955.

Parris, John. Oconaluftee: An Historical Reproduction of a Cherokee Indian Village of 1750. Cherokee, N.C.: Cherokee Historical Association, 1954.

Parris, John. The Cherokee Story. Asheville, NC: Stephens Press, 1950.