POETRY
The Panther and the Lash: Poems for Our Times (1967)
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961)
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1959)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
One-Way Ticket (1949)
Fields of Wonder (1947)
Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
The Weary Blues (1926)
FICTION
Something in Common and Other Stories (1963)
The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)
with Roy DeCarava (photographer)
Laughing to Keep from Crying (1952)
The Ways of White Folks (1934)
Not Without Laughter (1930)
DRAMA
Five Plays by Langston Hughes (1963)
HUMOR
Simple’s Uncle Sam (1965)
The Best of Simple (1961)
Simple Stakes a Claim (1957)
Simple Takes a Wife (1953)
Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The First Book of Africa (1960)
The First Book of the West Indies (1956)
The First Book of Jazz (1955)
The First Book of Rhythms (1954)
The First Book of Negroes (1952)
Popo and Fifina (1932)
with Arna Bontemps
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Famous Negro Heroes of America (1958)
I Wonder as I Wander (1956)
Famous Negro Music Makers (1955)
Famous American Negroes (1954)
The Big Sea (1940)
ANTHOLOGY
The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers:
An Anthology from 1899 to the Present (1967)
New Negro Poets: USA (1964)
An African Treasury:
Articles / Essays / Stories / Poems by Black Africans (1960)
The Langston Hughes Reader (1958)
The Book of Negro Folklore (1958)
with Arna Bontemps
Poetry of the Negro (1949)
with Arna Bontemps
HISTORY
Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro
in American Entertainment (1967)
with Milton Meltzer
Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP (1962)
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America (1956)
with Milton Meltzer
TRANSLATIONS
Selected Poems by Gabriela Mistral (1957)
Cuba Libre: Poems by Nicolás Guillén (1948)
Masters of the Dew (1947)
with Mercer Cook. A translation of the novel
Gouverneurs de la rosée by Jacques Roumain