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Bibliography

Poetry collections

• The Weary Blues, Knopf, 1926
• Fine Clothes to the Jew, Knopf, 1927
• The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, 1931
• Dear Lovely Death, 1931
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Knopf, 1932
• Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Golden Stair Press, N.Y., 1932
• Let America Be America Again, 1938
• Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf, 1942
• Freedom's Plow, 1943
• Fields of Wonder, Knopf, 1947
• One-Way Ticket, 1949
• Montage of a Dream Deferred, Holt, 1951
• Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, 1958
• Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, Hill & Wang, 1961
• The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, 1967
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf, 1994

Novels and short story collections

• Not Without Laughter. Knopf, 1930
• The Ways of White Folks. Knopf, 1934
• Simple Speaks His Mind. 1950
• Laughing to Keep from Crying, Holt, 1952
• Simple Takes a Wife. 1953
• Sweet Flypaper of Life, photographs by Roy DeCarava. 1955
• Tambourines to Glory 1958
• The Best of Simple. 1961
• Simple's Uncle Sam. 1965
• Something in Common and Other Stories. Hill & Wang, 1963
• Short Stories of Langston Hughes. Hill & Wang, 1996

Non-fiction books

• The Big Sea. New York: Knopf, 1940
• Famous American Negroes. 1954
• I Wonder as I Wander. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956
• A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, with Milton Meltzer. 1956
• Famous Negro Heroes of America. 1958
• Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. 1962

Major plays

• Mule Bone, with Zora Neale Hurston. 1931
• Mulatto. 1935 (renamed The Barrier, an opera, in 1950)
• Troubled Island, with William Grant Still. 1936
• Little Ham. 1936
• Emperor of Haiti. 1936
• Don't You Want to be Free? 1938
• Street Scene, contributed lyrics. 1947
• Tambourines to glory. 1956
• Simply Heavenly. 1957
• Black Nativity. 1961
• Five Plays by Langston Hughes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963.
• Jericho-Jim Crow. 1964

Books for children

• Popo and Fifina, with Arna Bontemps. 1932
• The First Book of the Negroes. 1952
• The First Book of Jazz. 1954
• Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer. with Steven C. Tracy 1954
• The First Book of Rhythms. 1954
• The First Book of the West Indies. 1956
• First Book of Africa. 1964
• Black Misery. Illustrated by Arouni. 1969, reprinted by Oxford University Press, 1994.