Novels and short story collections
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
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In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973, includes "Everyday Use")
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Meridian (1976)
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The Color Purple (1982)
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
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To Hell With Dying (1988)
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The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
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Finding the Green Stone (1991)
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Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
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The Complete Stories (1994)
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By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
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The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)
Poetry collections
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Once (1968)
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Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
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Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
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A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
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Collected Poems (2005)
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Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010)
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The World Will Follow Joy (2013)
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018)
Non-fiction books
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973–1987 (1988)
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (with Pratibha Parmar, 1993)
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The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
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Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit, After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006)
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Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (2005)
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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010)
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The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe, A Memoir (2011)
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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013)
Essays
- "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self" (1983)
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