Histoire de l'oeil [The Story of the Eye] (novel) 1928

Madame Edwarda [The Naked Beast at Heaven's Gate] (novel) 1937

L'expérience intérieure [The Inner Experience] (nonfiction) 1943

Le coupable [The Guilty] (novel) 1944

Somme athéologique (nonfiction) 1944

Le bleu du ciel [The Blue of Noon] (novel) 1945

Sur Nietzsche: Volonte de chance On Nietzsche (nonfiction) 1945

Histoire de rats (nonfiction) 1947

Méthode de méditation (nonfiction) 1947

La part maudite: Essai d'économie generale [The Accursed Share] (nonfiction) 1949

L'abbé C [Abbé C] (novel) 1950

Lascaux; ou, La Naissance de l'art [Lascaux; or, The Birth of Art: Prehistoric Painting] (nonfiction) 1955

L'érotisme [Eroticism] (nonfiction) 1957

L'érotisme; ou, La mise en question de l'être [Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo] (nonfiction) 1957

La littérature et le mal [Literature and Evil] (nonfiction) 1957

Les larmes d'Éros [The Tears of Eros] (nonfiction) 1961

L'impossible [The Impossible] (nonfiction) 1962

Le petit (essays) 1963

Procès de Gilles de Rais: Les Documents [Trial of Gilles de Rais] (nonfiction) 1965

Ma mère [My Mother] (novel) 1966

Le mort (short stories) 1967

Oeuvres complètes. 12 vols. (collected works) 1970-88

Théorie de la religion (nonfiction) 1974

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (nonfiction) 1985

The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism (nonfiction) 1994

Collected Poetry (poetry) 1998