A Street in Bronzeville (poetry) 1945
Annie Allen (poetry) 1949
Maud Martha (novel) 1953
Bronzeville Boys and Girls (juvenilia) 1956
The Bean Eaters (poetry) 1960
Selected Poems (poetry) 1963
In the Mecca (poetry) 1968
Riot (poetry) 1969
Family Pictures (poetry) 1970
Aloneness (poetry) 1971
A Broadside Treasury [editor] (poetry) 1971
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology [editor] (poetry) 1971
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks [includes A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, Maud Martha, The Bean Eaters, and In the Mecca] (poetry and novel) 1971
Report from Part One (autobiography) 1972
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves: Or, What You Are You Are (juvenilia) 1974
Beckonings (poetry) 1975
A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing [with others] (nonfiction) 1975
Primer for Blacks (poetry) 1980
Young Poet's Primer (nonfiction) 1980
Black Love (poetry) 1981
to disembark (poetry) 1981
Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago, the "I Will" City (poetry) 1983
Very Young Poets (nonfiction) 1983
The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (poetry) 1986
Blacks [includes A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, The Bean Eaters, Maud Martha, A Catch of Shy of Fish, Riot, In the Mecca, and most of Family Pictures] (poetry and novel) 1987
Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle (poetry) 1988
Winnie (poetry) 1988
Children Coming Home (poetry) 1991