The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes

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
• A New Song (1938, incl. the poem "Let America be America Again")
• Madrid 1937 with etchings by Dalla Husband, Gonzalo More, Paris, 1939
• Note on Commercial Theatre, 1940
• Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf, 1942
• Freedom's Plow, New York: Musette Publishers, 1943
• Jim Crow's Last Stand, Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America, 1943
• Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems, 1944
• Lenin, 1946
• 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
• The Sweet Flypaper of Life, photographs by Roy DeCarava. 1955
• Simple Stakes a Claim, 1957
• 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
• Famous Negro Music Makers, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955
• 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
• Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, with Milton Meltzer, 1967

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
• Jerico-Jim Crow, 1964

Books for children

• Popo and Fifina, with Arna Bontemps, 1932
• The First Book of 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 1994, Oxford University Press.

As editor

• The Poetry of the Negro, 1746–1949: an anthology, edited with Arna Bontemps, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1949.