1926
The Weary Blues. New York, NY; London, England: Knopf.
1927
Fine Clothes to the Jew. New York, NY; London, England: Knopf.
1930
Not Without Laughter. New York, NY; London, England: Knopf; London, England: Allen & Unwin.
1931
Dear Lovely Death. Amenia, N.Y: Troutbect Press.
The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations. New York, NY: Golden Stair Press.
1932
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. New York, NY: Knopf.
Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play in Verse. New York, NY: Golden Stair Press.
[With Arna Bontemps] Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti. New York, NY: Macmillan.
1934
A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia. Moscow and Leningrad, Russia: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R.
The Ways of White Folks. New York, NY: Knopf; London, England: Allen & Unwin.
1938
A New Song. New York, NY: International Workers Order.
1940
The Big Sea: An Autobiography. New York, NY; London, England: Knopf; London, England: Hutchinson.
1942
Shakespeare in Harlem. New York, NY: Knopf.
1943
Freedom's Plow. New York, NY: Musette.
Jim Crow's Last Stand. Atlanta, GA: Negro Publication Society of America.
1944
Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems. Amsterdam, Holland: Van Krimpen.
1947
Fields of Wonder. New York, NY: Knopf.
1949
One-Way Ticket. New York, NY: Knopf.
Troubled Island. [Libretto by Hughes, music by William Grant Still.] New York, NY: Leeds Music.
1950
Simple Speaks His Mind. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
1951
Montage of a Dream Deferred. New York, NY: Holt.
1952
Laughing to Keep from Crying. New York, NY: Holt.
The First Book of Negroes. New York, NY: Franklin Watts.
1953
The Glory Round His Head. [Libretto by Hughes, music by Jan Meyerowitz.] New York, NY: Broude Brothers.
Simple Takes A Wife. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
1954
Famous American Negroes. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead.
The First Book of Rhythms. New York, NY: Franklin Watts.
1955
Famous Negro Music Makers. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life. [Photographs by Roy DeCarava.] New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
The First Book of Jazz. New York, NY: Franklin Watts.
1956
I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey. New York, NY; Toronto, Canada: Rinehart.
The First Book of the West Indies. New York, NY: Franklin Watts; London, England: Bailey & Swinfen.
1957
Simple Stakes a Claim. London, England: Gollancz.
The Langston Hughes Reader. New York, NY: Braziller.
Famous Negro Heroes of America. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead.
1958
Tambourines to Glory. London, England: Gollancz.
1959
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York, NY: Knopf.
Simply Heavenly. [Music by David Martin.] New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service.
1960
The First Book of Africa (revised). New York, NY: Franklin Watts.
1961
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. New York, NY: Knopf.
The Ballad of the Brown King. [Libretto by Hughes, music by Margaret Bonds.] New York, NY: Sam Fox.
The Best of Simple. New York, NY: Hill & Wang.
1962
Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. New York, NY: Norton.
1963
Something in Common and Other Stories. New York, NY: Hill & Wang.
Five Plays by Langston Hughes. [Edited by Webster Smalley.] Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
1965
Simple's Uncle Sam. New York, NY: Hill & Wang.
1967
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times. New York, NY: Knopf.
Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
1969
Black Misery. New York, NY: Knopf.
Don't You Turn Back: Poems. [Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins.] New York, NY: Knopf.
1973
Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes. [Edited by Faith Berry.] New York, NY; Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill.
1991
[With Zora Neale Hurston] Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life. [Edited by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates Jr.] New York, NY: HarperPerennial.
1994
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Source
Academy of American Poets
"(James Mercer) Langston Hughes." Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004. Document number: K11617001418.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 228: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley, The Catholic University of America. The Gale Group, 2000.
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