The Conjure Woman (1899)

• The Goophered Grapevine
• Po' Sandy
• Mars Jeems's Nightmare
• The Conjurer's Revenge
• Sis' Becky's Pickaninny
• The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt
• Hot-Foot Hannibal

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line (1899)

• The Wife of His Youth
• Her Virginia Mammy
• The Sheriff's Children
• A Matter of Principle
• Cicely's Dream
• The Passing of Grandison
• Uncle Wellington's Wives
• The Bouquet
• The Web of Circumstance

The House Behind the Cedars (1900)

The Marrow of Tradition (1901)

Uncollected Stories

• Dave's Neckliss (1889)
• A Deep Sleeper (1893)
• Lonesome Ben (1900)
• The Dumb Witness (ca. 1900)
• The March of Progress (1901)
• Baxter's Procrustes (1904)
• The Doll (1912)
• White Weeds
• The Kiss

Selected Essays

• What is a White Man (1889)
• The Future American (1900)
• Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the Modern South (1901)
• Charles W. Chesnutt's Own View of His New Story, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
• The Disfranchisement of the Negro (1903)
• The Courts and the Negro (1908)
• Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem (1931)