- Nicholas J. Higham and Dennis Sherwood. How to Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, 2022.
- Nicholas J. Higham. Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, Third edition, 2020.
- Desmond J. Higham and Nicholas J. Higham, MATLAB Guide, SIAM, Third edition, 2017.
- Nicholas J. Higham et al. (eds), The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Nicholas J. Higham, Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation, SIAM, 2008.
- Nicholas J. Higham, Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, SIAM, Second edition, 2002.
- Contributor (numerical analysis and linear algebra entries) to Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (David Nelson, ed., fourth edition, 2008).