By Howard Rambsy II
Novels and short fiction
1970: The Bluesy Eye
1973: Sula
1977: Song of Solomon
1981: Tar Baby
1983: “Recitatif” (short story)
1987: Beloved
1992: Jazz
1997: Paradise
2003: Love
2008: A Mercy
2012: Home
2015: “Sweetness”
2015: God Help the Child
Nonfiction
1992: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2008: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (edited by Carolyn C. Denard)
2017: The Origins of Others
2019: The Source of Self-Regard: Essays, Speeches, Meditations
2019: Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard Divinity School’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture (Edited by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard)
Plays
1982: N’Orleans: The Storyville Musical (with Donald McKayle)
1986: Dreaming Emmett
2011: Desdemona
Poetry
2022: Five Poems
Libretto
2005: Margaret Garner