By Subject of Literary Work - Inner cities or inner-city life
- All Our Kin
- American History
- Black Is My Favorite Color
- Blight
- A Bottle of Milk for Mother
- The Boy Without a Flag
- Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Brown Girl, Brownstones
- Call It Sleep
- The Cariboo Café
- Clockers
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- The Economy of Cities
- El Bronx Remembered
- The Fat of the Land
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf
- for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf
- The Fortress of Solitude
- Frazer Avenue
- Gemini
- Gladiator-at-Law
- Glimpses
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Gospel Singers
- Heart of Aztlán
- Hell to Pay
- A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich
- His Own Where
- Home to Harlem
- Hoops
- In Darkness and Confusion
- In the Ditch
- In the Wine Time
- The Infinite Plan
- Kitchenette Building
- Lawd Today
- Looking for Mr. Green
- The Lovers of the Poor
- Maggie
- Maggie
- The Man Who Lived Underground
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- The mother
- Murderers
- Oliver Twist
- People of the Dog
- Philadelphia Fire
- The Poetry of Brooks
- The Poetry of Coleman
