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POETRY (Published by Knopf, except as indicated)
- The Weary Blues, 1926.
- Fine Clothes to the Jew, 1927.
- The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, Golden Stair Press, 1931.
- Dear Lovely Death, Troutbeck Press, 1931.
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, 1932.
- Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Golden Stair Press, 1932.
- A New Song, International Workers Order, 1938.
- (With Robert Glenn) Shakespeare in Harlem, 1942.
- Jim Crow's Last Stand, Negro Publication Society of America, 1943.
- Freedom's Plow, Musette Publishers, 1943.
- Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems, Holland, 1944.
- Fields of Wonder, 1947.
- One-Way Ticket, 1949.
- Montage of a Dream Deferred, Holt, 1951.
- Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz, 1961.
- The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, 1967, reprinted, Vintage Books, 1992.
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf (New York, NY), 1994.
- The Block: Poems, Viking (New York, NY), 1995.
- Carol of the Brown King: Poems, Atheneum Books (New York, NY), 1997.
- The Pasteboard Bandit, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.
- Not Without Laughter, Knopf, 1930.
- Tambourines to Glory, John Day, 1958.
- The Ways of White Folks, Knopf, 1934.
- Simple Speaks His Mind, Simon & Schuster, 1950.
- Laughing to Keep from Crying, Holt, 1952.
- Simple Takes a Wife, Simon & Schuster, 1953.
- Simple Stakes a Claim, Rinehart, 1957.
- Something in Common and Other Stories, Hill & Wang, 1963.
- Simple's Uncle Sam, Hill & Wang, 1965.
- The Return of Simple Hill & Wang, 1994.
- Short Stories of Langston Hughes, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 1996.
- The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Knopf, 1940.
- I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, Rinehart, 1956.
- A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1934.
- (With Roy De Carava) The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Simon & Schuster, 1955.
- (With Milton Meltzer) A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, Crown, 1956, 4th edition published as A Pictorial History of Black Americans, 1973, 6th edition published as A Pictorial History of African Americans, 1995.
- Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP, Norton, 1962.
- (With Meltzer) Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, Prentice-Hall, 1967.
- Black Misery, Paul S. Erickson, 1969.
- (With Arna Bontemps) Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti, Macmillan, 1932.
- The First Book of Negroes, F. Watts, 1952.
- The First Book of Rhythms, F. Watts, 1954, also published as The Book of Rhythms, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995.
- Famous American Negroes, Dodd, 1954.
- Famous Negro Music Makers, Dodd, 1955.
- The First Book of Jazz, F. Watts, 1955, revised edition, 1976.
- The First Book of the West Indies, F. Watts, 1956 (published in England as The First Book of the Caribbean, E. Ward, 1965).
- Famous Negro Heroes of America, Dodd, 1958.
- The First Book of Africa, F. Watts, 1960, revised edition, 1964.
- The Sweet and Sour Animal Book, Oxford University Press (New York City), 1994.
- Four Lincoln University Poets, Lincoln University, 1930.
- (With Bontemps) The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949, Doubleday, 1949, revised edition published as The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970, 1970.
- (With Waring Cuney and Bruce M. Wright) Lincoln University Poets, Fine Editions, 1954.
- (With Bontemps) The Book of Negro Folklore, Dodd, 1958.
- An African Treasury: Articles, Essays, Stories, Poems by Black Africans, Crown, 1960.
- Poems from Black Africa, Indiana University Press, 1963.
- New Negro Poets: U.S., foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks, Indiana University Press, 1964.
- The Book of Negro Humor, Dodd, 1966.
- The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present, Little, Brown, 1967.
- (With Mercer Cook) Jacques Roumain, Masters of Dew, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947, second edition, Liberty Book Club, 1957.
- (With Frederic Carruthers) Nicolas Guillen, Cuba Libre, Ward Ritchie, 1948.
- Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, Indiana University Press, 1957.
- Selected Poems, Knopf, 1959.
- The Best of Simple, Hill & Wang, 1961.
- Five Plays by Langston Hughes, edited by Webster Smalley, Indiana University Press, 1963.
- The Langston Hughes Reader, Braziller, 1968.
- Don't You Turn Back (poems), edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Knopf, 1969.
- Good Morning Revolution: The Uncollected Social Protest Writing of Langston Hughes, edited by Faith Berry, Lawrence Hill, 1973.
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf, 1994.
- The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (18 volumes), University of Missouri Press, 2001, 2002.
- (With Bontemps) Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters: 1925-1967, edited by Charles H. Nichols, Dodd, 1980.
- (With Zora Neale Hurston) Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (play), HarperCollins, 1991.
- Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62, edited by Christopher C. De Santis, University of Illinois Press, 1995.
- Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964, edited by Emily Bernard, Knopf, 2001.