ALICE WALKER: PRINCIPAL WORKS

Once: Poems (poetry) 1968

The Third Life of Grange Copeland (novel) 1970

Five Poems (poetry) 1972

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (short stories) 1973

Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (poetry) 1973

Langston Hughes: American Poet (juvenile nonfiction) 1974

Meridian (novel) 1976

Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (poetry) 1979

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing … and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader [editor] (fiction) 1979

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (short stories) 1981

The Color Purple (novel) 1982

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (essays) 1983

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems (poetry) 1984

Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 (essays) 1988

To Hell with Dying (juvenile fiction) 1988

The Temple of My Familiar (novel) 1989

Finding the Green Stone (juvenile fiction) 1991

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 (poetry) 1991

Possessing the Secret of Joy (novel) 1992

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women [with Pratibha Parmar] (nonfiction) 1994

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult: A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film "The Color Purple," Ten Years Later (essays) 1996

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (essays) 1997

By the Light of My Father's Smile (novel) 1998

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (short stories) 2000

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (poetry) 2003

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems & Drawings (poetry) 2003

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (novel) 2004