Principal Works
- The Invention (1955)
- The Swamp Dwellers (1958)
- The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
- A Dance of the Forests (1960)
- The Trials of Brother Jero (1960)
- The Republican (1963)
- The New Republican (1964)
- Before the Blackout (1965)
- The Interpreters (1965)
- Kongi's Harvest (1965)
- The Road (1965)
- The Strong Breed (1966)
- Idanre and Other Poems (1967)
- Poems from Prison (1969)
- A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972)
- Madmen and Specialists (1970)
- Plays from the Third World: An Anthology (1971)
- The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972)
- The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (1973)
- Collected Plays, Volume One (1973)
- Season of Anomy (1973)
- Death and the King's Horseman (1975)
- Myth, Literature, and the African World (1976)
- Ogun Abibiman (1976)
- Opera Wonyosi (1977)
- Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
- Priority Projects (1982)
- Requiem for a Futurologist (1983)
- A Play of Giants (1984)
- Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture (1988)
- Mandela's Earth and Other Poems (1988)
- Ìsarà: A Voyage around Essay (1989)
- Before the Deluge (1991)
- From Zia with Love (1992)
- Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir, 1946-65 (1994)
- The Beatification of Area Boy: A Lagosian Kaleidoscope (1995)
- The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996)
- Early Poems (1997)
- Arms and the Arts—A Continent's Unequal Dialogue (1999)
- The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness (1999)
- Conversations with Wole Soyinka (2001)
- Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (2002)
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