- John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929)
- Thirty-six Poems (1936)
- An Approach to Literature (1938), with Cleanth Brooks and John Thibaut Purser
- Understanding Poetry (1939), with Cleanth Brooks
- Night Rider (1939). Novel
- Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (1942)
- At Heaven's Gate (1943). Novel
- Understanding Fiction (1943), with Cleanth Brooks
- Selected Poems, 1923 – 1943 (1944)
- All the King's Men (1946). Novel
- Blackberry Winter: A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams (1946)
- The Circus in the Attic, and Other Stories (1947)
- Fundamentals of Good Writing: A Handbook of Modern Rhetoric (1950), with Cleanth Brooks
- World Enough and Time (1950). Novel
- Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices (1953)
- Band of Angels (1955). Novel
- Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South (1956)
- Promises: Poems: 1954 – 1956 (1957)
- Selected Essays (1958)
- The Cave (1959). Novel
- Remember the Alamo! (1958). For children
- The Gods of Mount Olympus (1959). For children
- How Texas Won Her Freedom (1959). For children
- All the King's Men: A Play (1960)
- You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957 – 1960 (1960)
- The Legacy of the Civil War (1961)
- Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961). Novel
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- Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964). Novel
- Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)
- Selected Poems: New and Old 1923 – 1966 (1966)
- Incarnations: Poems 1966 – 1968 (1968)
- Audubon: A Vision (1969). Book-length poem
- Homage to Theodor Dreiser (1971)
- John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection (1971)
- Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971). Novel
- American Literature: The Makers and the Making (1974), with Cleanth Brooks and R.W.B. Lewis
- Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968 – 1974 (1974)
- Democracy and Poetry (1975)
- Selected Poems: 1923 – 1976 (1977)
- A Place to Come to (1977). Novel
- Now and Then: Poems 1976 – 1978 (1978)
- Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - A New Version (1979)
- Being Here: Poetry 1977 – 1980 (1980)
- Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980)
- Rumor Verified: Poems 1979 – 1980 (1981)
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983). Book-length poem
- New and Selected Poems: 1923 – 1985 (1985)
- Portrait of a Father (1988)
- New and Selected Essays (1989)
- The Collected Poems (1998), edited by John Burt
- All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions (2000), edited by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. and James A. Perkins
- All the King's Men: Restored Edition (2002), edited by Noel Polk
- The Poets Laureate Anthology (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)
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