Ruffner's work is included in the following books.
(Note: all exhibition catalogues are listed under Solo and Group Exhibitions)
- Return to the Viewer; Selected Art Reviews, Matthew Kangas, 2011
- Secrets of Self-Starters, 48 Amazing Stories to Ignite the Self-Starter in You, Dr. Julie Miller, 2011
- Outside the Ordinary–2009, Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection, Amy Miller Dehan, 2009
- Penland Book of Glass, Lark Books, 2009
- Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2007
- Contemporary Glass Art, Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, 2006
- 500 Glass Objects, Lark Books, 2006
- 25 Years of New Glass Review, Tina Oldknow, 2005
- Sculpture, Glass and American Museums, Martha Drexler Lynn, 2005
- American Studio Glass, Martha Drexler Lynn, 2004
- Artful Jesters, Nicholas Roukes, Ten Speed Press, 2004
- Through American Eyes, Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art, 2003
- International Glass Art, Richard Yelle, 2003
- Formed by Fire, B.S. Dunham, 2003
- Women in Glass, Lucartha Kohler, 2003
- The Sculpture Reference, Arthur Williams, 2002
- Sculpture Beginnings, Arthur Williams, 2002
- Contemporary lampworking: a Practical Guide to Shaping Glass, Scott Bandhu Dunham, 2002
- Contemporary Glass: Color, Light, and Form, 2001
- Object Lessons, Beauty and Meaning in Art, The Guild, 2001
- Artists in Their Gardens, by Valerie Easton, Sasquatch Press Seattle, WA, 2001
- Glass Art from Urban Glass, Richard Yelle, NYC, 2000
- Secrets of Aromatic Jewelry, Annabelle Green, Flammerion, France, 1998
- Koganezaki Glass Museum: Contemporary Glass Collection, with an introduction by Kyohei Fujit, Koganezaki Crystal Park, Komomura, Japan, 1997
- Contemporary Lampworking, Bandhu Scott Dunham, Salusa Glassworks, Prescott, AZ, 1997
- Neuropsychology: The Neural Bases of Mental Function, Marie Banich. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1997
- Glass Art, Peter Layton, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1996
- Pilchuck: A Glass School, Tina Oldknow, Pilchuck Glass School in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1996
- Why Not?: The Art of Ginny Ruffner, Bonnie J. Miller with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto. Tacoma Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1995
- Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, MidMarch Arts Press, 1993
- Material Vision: Image and Object, Matthew Kangas, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, 1993
- Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Lloyd Herman, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, 1992
- A Field Guide to Seattle's Public Art, Seattle Art Commission, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 1992
- Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, Bonnie J. Miller, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1991
- The Beauty of Contemporary Glass, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Japan, 1990
- Prism of Fantasy - From the Glass Collection of Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, 1990
- Artists at Work, Susan Biskeborn, Alaska Northwest Books, 1990
- Contemporary Glass, Dan Klein, Rizzoli Publishers Inc., New York, NY, 1989
- Expressions en Verre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1989
- Glass Fantasia from Art Nouveau to the Present Day, Kyoto-shoin Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1989
- Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, Susanne K. Frantz, Harry Abrams, New York, NY, 1988
- Contemporary American Craft Art, Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, New York, NY, 1987