A Meeting in the Dark Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Novels

• Weep Not, Child (1964), ISBN 978-0143026242
• The River Between (1965), ISBN 0-435-90548-1
• A Grain of Wheat (1967, 1992), ISBN 0-14-118699-2
• Petals of Blood (1977), ISBN 0-14-118702-6
• Caitaani Mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross, 1980)
• Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986 (Matigari, translated into English by Wangui wa Goro, 1989), ISBN 0-435-90546-5
• Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow, 2006), ISBN 9966-25-162-6
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (2020)

Short-story collections

• A Meeting in the Dark (1974)[86]
• Secret Lives, and Other Stories (1976, 1992), ISBN 0-435-90975-4[87]
• Minutes of Glory and Other Stories (2019)[88]

Plays

• The Black Hermit (1963)
• This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Rebels", "The Wound in the Heart" and "This Time Tomorrow") (1970)[89]
• Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972), ISBN 0-435-18580-2 Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics. Lawrence Hill and Company. 1972 – via Google Books.</ref>
• The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976), ISBN 0-435-90191-5, African Publishing Group, ISBN 0-949932-45-0 (with Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)[86]
• Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano (I Will Marry When I Want) (1977, 1982) (with Ngũgĩ wa Mirii)

Memoirs

• Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981)
• Dreams in a Time of War: a Childhood Memoir (2010), ISBN 978-1-84655-377-6
• In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir (2012), ISBN 978-0-30790-769-1
• Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer's Awakening (2016), ISBN 978-1-62097-240-3
• Wrestling with the devil: A Prison Memoir (2018) [90]

Other non-fiction

• Education for a National Culture (1981)[86]
• Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983)[86]
• Mother, Sing For Me (1986)
• Writing against Neo-Colonialism (1986)[86]
• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986), ISBN 978-0852555019
• Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (1993), ISBN 978-0852555309
• Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1996), Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-818390-9[91]
• Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (2009), ISBN 978-0-465-00946-6[92]
• Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012), ISBN 978-0231159517 Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing on JSTOR
• Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe (2016), ISBN 978-0857423139
• The Language of Languages (2023), ISBN 978-0183090979

Children's books

• Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (translated by Wangui wa Goro) (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu, 1986)
• Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (translated by Wangui wa Goro) (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i, 1988)
• Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene, 1990), ISBN 0-86543-081-0
• The Upright Revolution, Or Why Humans Walk Upright, Seagull Press, 2019, ISBN 9780857426475