Novels
1.The Mixquiahuala Letters. Binghamton, N.Y. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1986. ISBN 0-916950-67-0 (New edition currently in print: Doubleday)
2 Sapogonia: An anti-romance in 3/8 meter. Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1990. ISBN 0-916950-95-6 new edition currently in print: Doubleday)
3 So Far from God. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. ISBN 0-393-03490-9
4 Peel My Love Like an Onion. New York: Doubleday, 1999. ISBN 0-385-49676-1
5 Watercolor Women, Opaque Men : A Novel in Verse. Willimantic, Connecticut: Curbstone Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-931896-20-7. New edition: Northwestern University Press; 2014.
6 The Guardians. New York: Random House, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4000-6500-4
7 Give It to Me. New York: The Feminist Press, 2014. ISBN
8 Isabel 2121 (HarperVia, on publication)
Story collections:
9. Loverboys. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. ISBN 0-393-03959-5
10. Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home. ( HarperVia Publisher; publication date: May, 2023)
Poetry:
11. Otro Canto. Chicago: Alternativa Publications, 1977.
12. The Invitation. (chapbook) 1979, 2nd ed., 1986.
13. Women Are Not Roses. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1984. ISBN 0-934770-28-X
14. My Father was a Toltec. West End Press, 1988
15. My Father Was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973–1988. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995. ISBN 0-393-03718-5 (poems include selections from My Father Was a Toltec, Otro Canto, Women Are not Roses, and The Invitation.)
16. I Ask the Impossible. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. ISBN
17. My Book of the Dead. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2021.
Non-fiction
18. Black Dove: mamá, mi’jo, and me. New York City: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016. ISBN 9781558619234 (paperback)
19. Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma. Albuquerque: University ofNew Mexico Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8263-1554-2. 20th Anniversary edition, 2014.
YOUNG ADULT
20.My Daughter, My Son, the Eagle the Dove: An Aztec Chant. (Spanish edition: Mi Hija, Mi Hijo, el Aguila, la Paloma) New York: Dutton Books, 2000. ISBN 0-525-45856-5
Theatre
21. Psst…I Have Something to Tell you Amor (Two Plays). San Antonio: Wings Press.
Translations:
22. Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos (with Norma Alarcón). San Francisco: ism press, 1988. (Spanish adaptation of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga.)
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As editor
23.The Sexuality of Latinas (co-editor, with Norma Alarcón and Cherríe Moraga). Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993. ISBN 0-943219-00-0
24. Recent Chicano Poetry/Neueste Chicano-Lyrik. (with Heiner Büs), Bamberger Editionene Band 8. 1994
24.Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe / La Diosa de las Américas: Escritos Sobre la Virgen de Guadalupe. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57322-029-9
26.Fifth Wednesday Journal Fall, 2018-Issue 23. IL (with Vern Miller)
27. Forthcoming TBA