Works include:
Poetry:
A Street in Bronzeville (1945)
Annie Allen (1949)
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956)
The Bean Eaters (1960)
Selected Poems (1963)
We Real Cool (1966)
The Wall (1967)
In the Mecca (1968)
Family Pictures (1970)
Riot (1970)
Black Steel: Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali (1971)
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks (1971)
Aloneness (1971)
Aurora (1972)
Beckonings (1975)
Black Love (1981)
To Disembark (1981)
The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems (1986)
Blacks (1987)
Winnie (1988)
Children Coming Home (1991)
Prose:
Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972)
A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing (1975)
Primer for Blacks (1981)
Young Poet's Primer (1981)
Very Young Poets (1983)
Fiction:
Maud Martha (1953)