- Collectiones
- Drama
- Fictio
- Uncle Tom's Children. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1938. Fabulae.
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1939. Fabula brevis.
- Native Son. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1940. Mythistoria.
- The Outsider. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1953. Mythistoria.
- Savage Holiday. Novi Eboraci: Avon, 1954. Mythistoria.
- The Long Dream. Garden City Novi Eboraci: Doubleday, 1958. Mythistoria.
- Eight Men. Clevelandiae et Novi Eboraci: World, 1961. Fabulae.
- Lawd Today. Novi Eboraci: Walker, 1963. Mythistoria.
- Rite of Passage. Novi Eboraci: Harper Collins, 1994. Fabula brevis.
- A Father's Law. Londinii: Harper Perennial, 2008. Mythistoria infecta.
- Non fictio
- How "Bigger" Was Born; Notes of a Native Son. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1940.
- 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Novi Eboraci: Viking, 1941.
- Black Boy. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1945.
- Black Power. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1954.
- The Color Curtain. Clevelandiae et Novi Eboraci: World, 1956.
- Pagan Spain. Novi Eboraci: Harper, 1957.
- Letters to Joe C. Brown. Kent Ohii: Kent State University Libraries, 1968.
- American Hunger. Novi Eboraci: Harper & Row, 1977.
- Black Power: Three Books from Exile: "Black Power"; "The Color Curtain"; et "White Man, Listen!" Harper Perennial, 2008.
- Blueprint for Negro Literature. Novi Eboraci, 1937.[2]
- The God that Failed. Contributor. 1949.
- Poemata
- Haiku: This Other World. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani et Robert L. Tener. Arcade, 1998. ISBN 0385720246.
- Liber iterum impressus: Haiku: The Last Poetry of Richard Wright. Arcade Publishing, 2012.
- Baldwin, James. 1988. Richard (Nathaniel) Wright. Contemporary Literary Criticism 48:415–430.
- Barnfield, Graham, et Joseph G. Ramsey. 2008. Special Centenary Section on "Facing the Future After Richard Wright." Reconstruction 8(4).
- Burgum, Edwin Berry. 1943. The Promise of Democracy and the Fiction of Richard Wright. Science & Society 7(4):338–352. JSTOR.
- Gayle, Addison. 1980. Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son. Garden City Novi Eboraci: Anchor Press / Doubleday. ISBN 0385088779.
- Meyerson, Gregory. 2008. Aunt Sue's Mistake: False Consciousness in Richard Wright's "Bright and Morning Star." Reconstruction 8(4).
- Reynolds, Guy. 2000. "Sketches of Spain": Richard Wright's Pagan Spain and African-American Representations of the Hispanic. Journal of American Studies 34.
- Wald, Alan. On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider. Solidarity.
- Walker, Margaret. 1988. Richard Wright, daemonic genius : a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work. Novi Eboraci: Warner Books. ISBN 0446710016.
- Yarborough, Richard. 2008. Introduction. In Uncle Tom's Children. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.