For further reading: Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Clifford B. Robson (1979); An Introduction to the Writings of Ngugi wa Thiong'o by G.D. Killam (1980); Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Exploration of His Writings by David Cook and Michael Okenimkpe (1983); Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat by Muchigu Kiiru (1985); Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Making of a Rebel by Carol Sicherman (1990); Ngugi wa Thiong'o: L'homme et l'ouvre by Jacqueline Bardolph (1990) Ngugi Wa Thiong O: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 1957-1987 by Carol Sicherman (1991); The Words of Ngugi by C. Nwandwo (1992); The World of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, ed. by Charles Cantalupo (1993); The Novels of Achebe and Ngugi by K. Indrasena Reddy (1994); Ngugi was Thiong'o: Text and Context, ed. by Charles Cantalupo (1995); Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Ideology of Form by Simon Gikandi (1998); Critical Essays: Achebe, Baldwin, Cullen, Ngugi, and Tutuola by Sydney Onyeberechi (1999); Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Patrick Williams (1999); Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Oliver Lovesey (2000) - For further information: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Overview, The Global Education Project: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Selected works:

• The Black Hermit, 1963 (play)
• Weep Not, Child, 1964
• The River Between, 1965
• A Grain of Wheat, 1967
• This Time Tomorrow (three plays, including the title play, "The Reels," and "The Wound in the Heart"), c. 1970
• Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, 1972
• Secret Lives, and Other Stories, 1976
• The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, 1976 (with Micere Githae Mugo)
• Ngaahika ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), 1977 (play; with Ngugi wa Mirii)
• Petals of Blood, 1977
• Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross), 1980
• Writers in Politics: Essays, 1981
• Education for a National Culture, 1981
• Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, 1981
• Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, 1983
• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986
• Mother, Sing For Me, 1986
• Writing against Neo-Colonialism, 1986
• Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Malhagu),1986 (children's book)
• Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986
• Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chif (Njamba Nene na Chibu King'ang'i), 1988 (children's book)
• Matigari, 1989 (translated into English by Wangui wa Goro)
• Njamba Nene's Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene), 1990 (children's book)
• Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, 1993
• Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance on Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa, 1998