Poetry

• Theory of Flight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935.
• U.S.1. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1938.
• Mediterranean. New York: New York Writers and Artists Committee, Medical Bureau, 1937.
• A Turning Wind. Νew York: The Viking Press, 1939.
• The Soul and Body of John Brown, 1940.
• Wake Island. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1942.
• Beast in View. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1944.
• The Children's Orchard, 1947.
• The Green Wave. With Octavio Paz. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.
• Orpheus, 1949.
• Elegies, 1949.
• Body of Waking. New York: Harper, 1958.
• Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
• The Outer Banks. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn, 1967.
• The Speed of Darkness. New York: Random House,1968.
• 29 Poems. London: Rapp and Whiting, 1972.
• Breaking Open. New York: Random House, 1973.
• The Gates. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976.
• The Collected Poems New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.
• More Night. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1981.
• Out of Silence: Selected Poems. Ed. Kate Daniels. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1992.
• The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2005.

Prose

• Willard Gibbs: American Genius. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1942.
• The Life of Poetry. NY: Current Books, 1949.
• Come Back, Paul. New York: Harper, 1955.
• One Life. (Biography of Wendell Willkie) NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957.
• I Go Out. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961.
• The Orgy. USA: Pocket Books, 1966.
• Bubbles. New York: Harcourt Publishers, 1967.
• Poetry and the Unverifiable Fact. (Clark Lectures). Claremont, CA: Scripps College, 1968.
• Mazes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
• The Traces of Thomas Hariot. NY: Random House, 1971.

Drama

• The Middle of the Air, 1945.
• All the Way Home. (Documentary filmscript), 1958.
• The Colors of the Day, 1961.
• Houdini: a Musical. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2002.