- Not without laughter
- Langston Hughes
- Vintage Hughes
- Let America be America again
- Short stories
- The dream keeper and other poems
- Black misery
- I wonder as I wander: an autobiographical journey
- The big sea: an autobiography
- Mule bone: a comedy of Negro life
- Selected poems of Langston Hughes
- The ways of white folks
- The Negro mother, and other dramatic recitations
- A pictorial history of Blackamericans
- Langston Hughes in the Hispanic world and Haiti
- Good morning, revolution uncollected social protest writings
- The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
- Don't you turn back
- The panther & the lash: poems of our times
- The book of Negro humor
- Five plays
- Poems from Black Africa: Ethiopia, South Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, Gabon, Senegal, Nyasaland, Mozambique, South Africa, Congo, Ghana, Liberia
- Something in common, and other stories
- Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP
- An African treasury: articles, essays, stories, poems
- The best of Simple
- The Langston Hughes reader
- The book of Negro folklore
- Famous American Negroes
- Street scene: an American opera