Novels
The Bluest Eye (1970; ISBN 0-452-28706-5)
Sula (1973; ISBN 1-4000-3343-8)
Song of Solomon (1977; ISBN 1-4000-3342-X)
Tar Baby (1981; ISBN 1-4000-3344-6)
Beloved (1987; ISBN 1-4000-3341-1)
Jazz (1992; ISBN 1-4000-7621-8)
Paradise (1999; ISBN 0-679-43374-0)
Love (2003; ISBN 0-375-40944-0)
Children's literature (with Slade Morrison)
The Big Box (2002)
The Book of Mean People (2002)
Who's Got Game?: The Lion or the Mouse? (2003)
Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper, (2003)
Who's Got Game?: Poppy or the Snake?, (2004)
Who's Got Game?: The Mirror or the Glass? (to be released in 2007)
Short stories
"Recitatif" (1983)
Plays
Dreaming Emmett (performed 1986)
Libretto
Margaret Garner (first performed May 2005)
Non-fiction
The Black Book (1974)
Birth of a Nation'hood (co-editor) (1997)
Playing in the Dark (1992)
Remember:The Journey to School Integration (April 2004)
Articles
"This Amazing, Troubling Book" (An analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
