Fiction

Novels and short story collections

• The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
• In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973, includes “Everyday Use”)
• Meridian (1976)
• The Color Purple (1982)
• You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
• To Hell With Dying (1988)
• The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
• Finding the Green Stone (1991)
• Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
• The Complete Stories (1994)
• By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998)
• The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
• Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)

Poetry collections

• Once (1968)
• Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
• Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning (1979)
• Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
• Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
• Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
• A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
• Collected Poems (2005)
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010)
• Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018)

Non-fiction books

• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
• Living by the Word (1988)
• Warrior Marks (1993)
• The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
• Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism (1997)
• Go Girl!: The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
• Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
• Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
• Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
• Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
• The cushion in the road – Meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to be in harm’s way (2013)

Essays

• “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” (1983)

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