Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed

Novels and short fiction

• The Freelance Pallbearers, 1967
• Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, 1969
• Mumbo Jumbo, 1972
• The Last Days of Louisiana Red, 1974
• Flight to Canada, 1976
• The Terrible Twos, 1982
• Reckless Eyeballing, 1986
• The Terrible Threes, 1989
• Japanese by Spring, 1993
• Juice!, 2011
• Conjugating Hindi, 2018
• "The Fool Who Thought Too Much" (short story), 2020
• The Terrible Fours, 2021
• The Man Who Haunted Himself, 2022

Poetry and other collected works

• catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church, 1969
• Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon or D Hexorcism of Noxon D Awful, 1970
• Neo-HooDoo Manifesto, 1972
• Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963–1970, 1972
• Chattanooga: Poems, 1973
• A Secretary to the Spirits, illustrated by Betye Saar, 1978
• New and Collected Poetry, 1988
• The Reed Reader, 2000
• New and Collected Poems, 1964–2006, 2006 (hardcover); New and Collected Poems, 1964–2007, 2007 (paperback)
• Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues, 2020

Plays and librettos

• The Wild Gardens of the Loup Garou, with poetry by Reed and Colleen McElroy and music by Carman Moore (1981, 1989).
• Gethsemane Park, libretto; Carman Moore, composer (premiere, Berkeley Black Repertory Theater, 1998).
• Ishmael Reed, THE PLAYS, a collection of six plays published by Dalkey Archive Press (2009), as listed with date of premiere: Mother Hubbard (1979 and revised in 1997 into a musical version); Savage Wilds (1988 Part I; 1990, Part II); Hubba City (1989, 1994); The Preacher and the Rapper (1995); C Above C Above High C (1997); Body Parts (2007), a play developed from a work first performed as Tough Love (2004).
• The Final Version, premiered at the Nuyorican Poets Café in December 2013. Forthcoming from Archway Editions, 2024.
• Life Among the Aryans, premiered in full production at the Nuyorican Poets Café in June 2018. Archway Editions, 2022.
• The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, premiered in full production at the Nuyorican Poets Café in May 2019, published by Archway Editions in 2020.
• The Slave Who Loved Caviar, premiered in a virtual reading sponsored by the Nuyorican Poets Café in March 2021; a full production premiered December 23, 2021, at Theater for the New City. Forthcoming from Archway Editions in October 2023.
• The Conductor, premiered in a full production at Theater for the New City on March 9, 2023, and returned for a second three-week run August 24–September 10, 2023.[73][74]
• The Shine Challenge 2024, premiered as a virtual staged reading sponsored by the Nuyorican Poets Cafe through April 15, 2024.[75]

Non-fiction

• Shrovetide in Old New Orleans: Essays, Atheneum, 1978
• God Made Alaska for the Indians: Selected Essays, Garland, 1982
• Writin' Is Fightin': Thirty-seven Years of Boxing On Paper. New York: Atheneum, 1989
• Airing Dirty Laundry. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1993
• Oakland Rhapsody, The Secret Soul Of An American Downtown. Introduction and Commentary by Ishmael Reed and photographs by Richard Nagler. North Atlantic Books, 1995
• Blues City: A Walk in Oakland, Crown Journeys, 2003
• Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War, Basic Books, 2003
• Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections, Da Capo Press, 2008
• Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the "Nigger Breakers", Baraka Books, 2010
• Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown, Baraka Books, 2012
• The Complete Muhammad Ali, Baraka Books, July 2015
• "Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Them, and the Reason Jazz Survives" in American Multiculturalism in Context, Views from at Home and Abroad, edited by Sami Ludwig, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 189–199
• Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, a collection of new and collected essays, Baraka Books, 2019
• Malcolm and Me, written and narrated by Reed, Audible, 2020

Anthologies edited by Reed

• 19 Necromancers From Now, Doubleday & Co., 1970
• Calafia: The California Poetry, Yardbird Pub. Co., 1978, ISBN 978-0931676031
• Yardbird Lives!, co-edited with Al Young, Grove Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0394170411
• QUILT #1, Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. ISBN 0931676053
• QUILT #2, A special issue devoted to the stories of students at University of California Berkeley. Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. ISBN 9780931676062
• The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, Selections from the American Book Awards 1980–1990, co-edited with Kathryn Trueblood and Shawn Wong, W. W. Norton, 1991, ISBN 978-0393308334
• The HarperCollins Literary Mosaic Series, General Editor of four anthologies edited by Gerald Vizenor, Shawn Wong, Nicolas Kanellos and Al Young, 1995–96
• MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, Viking/Penguin, 1997, ISBN 978-0140259124
• From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2001, Da Capo Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1560254584
• Pow Wow: 63 Writers Address the Fault Lines in the American Experience, short fiction anthology, edited with Carla Blank, Da Capo Press, 2009, ISBN 1568583400
• Black Hollywood Unchained, non-fiction anthology, edited and with an Introduction by Reed, Third World Press, October 2015, ISBN 978-0883783535
• Bigotry on Broadway, co-edited with Carla Blank, with an Introduction by Reed, Baraka Books, September 2021 ISBN 1771862564