- Go tell it on the mountain
- Collected essays
- The amen corner
- Tell me how long the train's been gone : a novel
- Going to meet the man
- Nobody knows my name: more notes of a native son
- Another country
- A rap on race
- Just above my head
- If Beale Street could talk
- Giovanni's room
- No name in the street
- The evidence of things not seen
- The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction, 1948-1985
- Tell me how long the train's been gone
- The devil finds work
- A dialogue
- Black anti-Semitism and Jewish racism
- Blues for Mister Charlie, a play