Principal Works
- Once: Poems 1968
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- Five Poems 1972
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women 1973
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems 1973
- Langston Hughes: American Poet 1974
- Meridian (1976)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning 1979
- I Love Myself when I Am Laughing … and Then again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader 1979
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981)
- The Color Purple (1982)
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 1983
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful 1984
- Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 1988
- To Hell with Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone 1991
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete 1991
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women 1993
- Everyday Use (1994)
- Alice Walker: Banned 1996
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 1996
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism 1997
- By the Light of My Father's Smile 1998
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart 2000
- Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit after the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 2001
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