Bad Boys. San Jose: Mango Press, 1980. Poems published in the Chicano Chapbook series edited by Gary Soto and printed by Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Caramelo, or, Puro Cuento: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2002.

Hairs = Pelitos. Ilus. by Terry Ybanez. New York: Knopf, 1994.

The House on Mango Street. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1984. Winner of the American Book Award.

Loose Woman: Poems. New York: Random House, 1994.

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Random House, 1991.

My Wicked, Wicked Ways. Bloomington: Third Woman Press, 1987. Reprinted in hardcover by Turtle Bay Books (Random House, 1992) and Knopf (1994).