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
Last updated December 16, 2025.