Fiction

• 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)
• The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
• 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

• 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)
• The World Will Follow Joy (2013)
• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010)
• Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018)

Non-Fiction

• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
• Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973–1987 (1988)
• Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (with Pratibha Parmar, 1993)
• The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
• Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism (1997)
• 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: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006)
• Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker in Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (2005)
• Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010)
• The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker (2010)
• The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, the Gladyses, & Babe, A Memoir (2011)
• The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013)
• Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Edited by Valerie Boyd (2022)

Children’s Books

• To Hell With Dying (1988)
• Finding the Green Stone (1991)
• Why War is Never a Good Idea (2007)
• Sweet People Are Everywhere (2021)

_{Alice Walker by Lazar Simeonov}

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Last updated December 16, 2025.