Devil in a Blue Dress (novel) 1990

A Red Death (novel) 1991

White Butterfly (novel) 1992

Black Betty (novel) 1994

R. L.'s Dream (novel) 1995

A Little Yellow Dog (novel) 1996

Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel (novel) 1997

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: The Socrates Fortlow Stories (short stories) 1998

Blue Light (novel) 1998

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems [co-editor and author of introduction] (essays) 1999

Walkin' the Dog (novel) 1999

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (nonfiction) 2000

Fearless Jones (novel) 2001

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent Future (short stories) 2001

Bad Boy Brawly Brown (novel) 2002

Fear Itself (novel) 2003

What Next: A Memoir toward World Peace (memoirs and nonfiction) 2003

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories (short stories) 2003

The Man in My Basement (novel) 2004