Book list

Recent

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, The Journals of Alice Walker | Edited by Valerie Boyd, 2022
New Poems, Taking The Arrow Out Of The Heart, 2018
The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness Into Flowers (poems) 2013
The Cushion In The Road; Meditation and Wandering As The Whole World Awakens
To Being In Harm’s Way (essays, travels and dreams)
The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011.

 

Novels

The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Meridian
The Color Purple
The Temple of My Familiar
Possessing the Secret of Joy
By the Light of My Father’s Smile
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart


Short Stories

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker Banned
You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
The Way Forward Is With A Broken Heart

 

Essays and Prose

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Womanist Prose
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
Living By the Word
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing….A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (editor)
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Sent By Earth
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (with Pratibha Parmar)
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
Overcoming Speechlessness
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering As the Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm’s Way

 

Poetry

Once
Revolutionary Petunias
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You In the Morning
Her Blue Body Everything We Know, Earthling Poems
Absolute Trust In The Goodness Of The Earth
A Poem Travelled Down My Arm, poetry and drawings
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
The World Will Follow Joy; Turning Madness Into Flowers

 

Books for Children

To Hell With Dying 
Langston Hughes, American Poet
Finding the Green Stone
There Is A Flower At The Tip Of My Nose Smelling Me
Why War Is Never A Good Idea
Sweet People Are Everywhere

 

Video

Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (video)

 

Collected Interviews

The World Has Changed; Conversations With Alice Walker, edited by Rudolph P. Byrd.