* The House on Mango Street (1984)
* Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)
* The Bean Trees (1994)
* Marisol (2007)
* The Guardians (2013)
Non-fiction:
* From the Center: Feminist Essays and Poems (1987)
* Border Words: A Memoir of Exile (1989)
* Living Chicana Theory (1998)
* Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, and the Ethics of Truth-Telling (2010)
* The People: No Documents No Fear (2019, co-authored with Claudia Rankine)