* Mladi branilci (1978)
* Dolga smrt Bele Amerike (1980)
*Okrožje Harlan, ZDA (1981)
*To Get There From Here (1984)
*Nemlada republika:Afroameriška odisejada v srce Amerike (1991)
*Okrožje Harlan:Trideset let kasneje (2012)
Eseji in članki
* "Kako je biti črnec v Ameriki" (The New York Times Magazine, 1980)
* "The Case Against Afirmative Action" (The New Republic, 1991)
* "The Tragedy of O. J. Simpson" (The New York Times Magazine, 1995)
* "The Myth of Black Rage" (The Atlantic Monthly, 1997)
* "The New Civil Rights Movement" (The Nation, 2004)
* "Ponovni vzpon stranke Black Panther" (The Nation, 2007)
* "Mit o postrasni družbi" (The New York Times Magazine, 2011)
Nagrade
- Nagrada univerze Alfred I. duPont-Columbia (1981) za Dolgo smrt Bele Amerike
- Novinarska nagrada Roberta F. Kennedyja (1981) za Dolgo smrt Bele Amerike
- Nagrada Peabody (1984) za To Get There From Here
- Nagrada National Book Critics Circle Award (1991) za The Unyoung Republic:An African American's Odyssey to the Heart of America
- Guggenheimova štipendija (1992)
- MacArthur Fellowship (1993)