Poetry

• The Weary Blues - 1926
• Fine Clothes to the Jew - 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. N.Y.: Golden Stair Press - 1932
• Shakespeare in Harlem. Knopf - 1942
• Freedom's Plow - 1943
• Fields of Wonder - 1947
• One-Way Ticket - 1949
• Montage of a Dream Deferred - 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
• Let America Be America Again - 2005

Fiction

• Not Without Laughter - 1930
• The Ways of White Folks - 1934
• Simple Speaks His Mind - 1950
• Laughing to Keep from Crying, Holt - 1952
• Simple Takes a Wife - 1953
• Sweet Flypaper of Life - 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 - 1963
• Short Stories of Langston Hughes. Hill &Wang - 1996

Non-Fiction

• The Big Sea - 1940
• Famous American Negroes - 1954
• Marion Anderson: Famous Concert Singer - 1954
• I Wonder as I Wander - 1956
• A Pictorial History of the Negro in America - 1956
• Famous Negro Heroes of America - 1958
• Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP - 1962

Plays

• Mule Bone, with Zora Neale Hurston - 1931
• Mulatto - 1935
• Troubled Island, with Willam 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 - 956
• Simply Heavenly - 1957
• Black Nativity - 1961
• Five Plays by Langston Hughes - 1963
• Jericho - Jim Crow - 1964

Works for Children

• Popo and Fifina, with Arna Bontemps - 1932
• The First Book of the Negroes - 1952
• The First Book of Jazz - 1954
• The First Book of Rhythms - 1954
• The First Book of the West Indies - 1956
• First Book of Africa - 1964