Poetry collections
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The Weary Blues, Knopf, 1926
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Fine Clothes to the Jew, Knopf, 1927
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The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, 1931
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Dear Lovely Death, 1931
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The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Knopf, 1932
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Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Golden Stair Press, N.Y., 1932
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A New Song (1938, incl. the poem "Let America be America Again")
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Madrid 1937 with etchings by Dalla Husband, Gonzalo More, Paris, 1939
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Note on Commercial Theatre, 1940
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Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf, 1942
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Freedom's Plow, New York: Musette Publishers, 1943
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Jim Crow's Last Stand, Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America, 1943
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Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems, 1944
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Lenin, 1946
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Fields of Wonder, Knopf, 1947
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One-Way Ticket, 1949
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Montage of a Dream Deferred, Holt, 1951
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, 1958
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Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, Hill & Wang, 1961
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The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, 1967
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf, 1994
Novels and short story collections
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Not Without Laughter. Knopf, 1930
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The Ways of White Folks, Knopf, 1934
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Simple Speaks His Mind, 1950
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Laughing to Keep from Crying, Holt, 1952
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Simple Takes a Wife, 1953
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life, photographs by Roy DeCarava. 1955
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Simple Stakes a Claim, 1957
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Tambourines to Glory, 1958
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The Best of Simple, 1961
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Simple's Uncle Sam, 1965
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Something in Common and Other Stories, Hill & Wang, 1963
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Short Stories of Langston Hughes, Hill & Wang, 1996
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Non-fiction books
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The Big Sea, New York: Knopf, 1940
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Famous American Negroes, 1954
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Famous Negro Music Makers, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955
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I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956
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A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, with Milton Meltzer. 1956
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Famous Negro Heroes of America, 1958
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Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. 1962
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Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, with Milton Meltzer, 1967
Major plays
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Mule Bone, with Zora Neale Hurston, 1931
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Mulatto, 1935 (renamed The Barrier, an opera, in 1950)
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Troubled Island, with William Grant Still, 1936
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Little Ham, 1936
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Emperor of Haiti, 1936
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Don't You Want to be Free?, 1938
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Street Scene, contributed lyrics, 1947
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Tambourines to Glory, 1956
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Simply Heavenly, 1957
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Black Nativity, 1961
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Five Plays by Langston Hughes, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963
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Jerico-Jim Crow, 1964
Books for children
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Popo and Fifina, with Arna Bontemps, 1932
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The First Book of Negroes, 1952
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The First Book of Jazz, 1954
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Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer, with Steven C. Tracy, 1954
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The First Book of Rhythms, 1954
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The First Book of the West Indies, 1956
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First Book of Africa, 1964
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Black Misery, illustrated by Arouni, 1969; reprinted 1994, Oxford University Press.
As editor
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The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949: an anthology, edited with Arna Bontemps, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1949.
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