Novels

The Bluest Eye – New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970

Sula – New York: Knopf, 1973

Song of Solomon – New York: Knopf, 1977

Tar Baby – New York: Knopf, 1981

Beloved – New York: Knopf, 1987

Jazz – New York: Knopf, 1992

Paradise – New York: Knopf, 1998

Love – New York: Knopf, 2003

A Mercy – New York : Knopf, 2008

Home – New York : Knopf, 2012

God Help the Child – New York : Knopf, 2015

Recitatif – New York: Knopf, 1983

Recitatif – New York: Knopf, 2022 (reissue with introduction by Zadie Smth)

Dreaming Emmett (performed 1986, but unpublished)

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination – Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press 1992

Race-ing justice, En-gendering Power -- Pantheon Books, New York, 1992

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 -- New York: Knopf, 1994

Birth of a Nation’hood : Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case -- Pantheon Books, New York, 1997

What Moves in the Margin: Selected Nonfiction / edited and with an introduction by Carolyn C. Denard – Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008

The Origin of Others -- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2017

The Source of Self-Regard -- Alfred A. Knopf,New York, 2019

The Big Box – illustrations by Giselle Potter. New York: Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, 1999

The Book of Mean People – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Hyperion, 2002

My Book of Mean People Journal – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Hyperion, 2002

Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Scribner, 2003

Who's Got Game? The Lion or the Mouse? – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Scribner, 2003

Who's Got Game? Poppy or the Snake? – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Scribner, 2004

Who's Got Game? Three Fables – illustrations by Pascal Lemaître. New York: Scribner, 2007

Peeny Butter Fudge – illustrations by Joe Cepeda. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009

The Tortoise or the Hare – illustrations by Joe Cepeda. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010

Little Cloud and Lady Wind – illustrations by Sean Qualls. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010

Please, Louise – illustrations by Shadra Strickland. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013

Remember: The Journey to School Integration – Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004