For My People (poetry) 1942

Come Down from Yonder Mountain (novel) 1962

Jubilee (novel) 1966

Prophets for a New Day (poetry) 1970

How I Wrote Jubilee (nonfiction) 1972

October Journey (poetry) 1973

A Poetic Equation: Conversations Between Margaret Walker and Nikki Giovanni [with Nikki Giovanni] (interviews) 1974

Black Women and Liberation Movements (essays) 1981

The Daemonic Genius of Richard Wright (biography) 1982; revised as Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius, 1987

My Farish Street Green [For Farish Street] (poetry) 1986

This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (poetry) 1989

How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature (essays) 1990

God Touched My Life: The Inspiring Autobiography of the Nun Who Brought Song, Celebration, and Soul to the World [with Thea Bowman] (biography) 1992

Setting the Record Straight (lecture) 1996

On Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker (essays) 1997