Poetry
1. Pictures of the Gone World (City Lights, 1955, enlarged, 1995)
2. A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958)
3. Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower (Golden Mountain Press, 1958)
4. One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro (City Lights, 1961)
5. Starting from San Francisco (New Directions, 1961)
6. Where Is Vietnam? (Golden Mountain Press, 1963)
7. Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes (1968)
8. Tyrannus Nix? (New Directions, 1969)
9. The Secret Meaning of Things (New Directions, 1970)
10. Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho (City Lights, 1970)
11. Love Is No Stone on the Moon (ARIF, 1971)
12. Open Eye, Open Heart (New Directions, 1973)
13. Who Are We Now? (New Directions, 1976)
14. Northwest Ecolog (City Lights, 1978)
15. Landscapes of Living and Dying (W. W. Norton, 1980)
16. Over All the Obscene Boundaries (W. W. Norton, 1986)
17. These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955–1993 (New Directions, 1993)
18. A Buddha in the Woodpile (Atelier Puccini, 1993)
19. City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (City Lights, 1995)
20. A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions, 1998)
21. How to Paint Sunlight: Lyrics Poems & Others, 1997–2000 (New Directions, 2001)
22. San Francisco Poems (City Lights Foundation, 2001)
23 Americus: Part I (New Directions, 2004)
24. A Coney Island of the Mind (Arion Press, 2005), with portraiture by R. B. Kitaj
25. Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Directions, 2007)
26. A Coney Island of the Mind: Special 50th Anniversary Edition (with a CD of the author reading his work) (New Directions, 2008)
27. 50 Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 50 Images by Armando Milani (Rudiano, 2010)
28. Time of Useful Consciousness (Americus, Book II) (New Directions, 2012)
29. City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition (City Lights, 2015)
30. Pictures of the Gone World: 60th Anniversary Edition (City Lights, 2015)
31. Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems (New Directions, 2017)
Novels
1. Her (New Directions, 1960)
2. Love in the Days of Rage (E.P. Dutton, 1988; City Lights, 2001)
3. Little Boy (Doubleday, 2019)
Plays
1. Unfair Arguments with Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre (New Directions, 1963)
2. Routines (New Directions, 1964)
3. Street Kids and Other Plays (with Brio Burgess) (Jacob’s Ladder Books, 1996)
4. Routines, Expanded Edition (New Directions, 2001)
Journals
1. Journal for the Protection of All Beings (City Lights, 1961)
2. On the Barracks: Journal for the Protection of All Beings (City Lights, 1968)
3. The Mexican Night (New Directions, 1970)
Correspondence
1. I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg 1955–1997 (City Lights, 2015)
Drawings
1. Life Studies, Life Stories (City Lights, 2003)