Below is a list of his works over his lifespan.


Autobiographies -
- 1930 - Not Without Laughter
- 1940 - The Big Sea
- 1956 - I Wonder as I Wander

Poetry -
- 1926 - The Weary Blues
- 1931 - The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations
- 1932 - The Dream Keeper
- 1942 - Shakespeare in Harlem
- 1947 - Fields of Wonder
- 1947 - One Way Ticket
- 1955 - The First Book of Jazz
- 1958 - Tambourines To Glory
- 1959 - Selected Poems
- 1961 - The Best of Simple

Edited Anthologies -
- 1960 - An African Treasury
- 1963 - Poems from Black Africa
- 1964 - New Negro Poets
- 1967 - The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers

Plays - 
- 1968 - Five Plas By Langston Hughes
- 1969 - The Panther and The Lash: Poems of Our Times
- 1973 - Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest
- 1984 - The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Roy DeCarava