- "Black Boy:A Memoir" (1945)
- "Native Son" (1940)
- "Invisible Man" (1952)
- "Fortell det på fjellet" (1953)
- "Et annet land" (1962)
- "The Bluest Eye" (1970)
- "I Sing the Body Electric!" (1973)
- "Sula" (1973)
- "Song of Salomon" (1977)
- "Beloved" (1987)
- "Jazz" (1992)
- "Paradise" (1998)