Le degré zéro de l'écriture [Writing Degree Zero] (criticism) 1953

Michelet [Michelet] (criticism) 1954

Mythologies [Mythologies] (criticism) 1957

Sur Racine [On Racine] (criticism) 1963

“Eléments de sémiologie” [Elements of Semiology] (essay) 1964

Essais critiques [Critical Essays] (essays) 1964

La Tour Eiffel [*The Eiffel Tower, and Other Mythologies] [with André Martin] (essays) 1964

Critique et vérité [Criticism and Truth] (criticism) 1966

Système de la mode [The Fashion System] (criticism) 1967

L'empire de signes [Empire of Signs] (criticism) 1970

S/Z [S/Z] (criticism) 1970

Sade, Fourier, Loyola [Sade, Fourier, Loyola] (criticism) 1971

†Le degré zéro de l'écriture, suivi de: Nouveaux essais critiques [New Critical Essays] (essays) 1972

Le plaisir du texte [The Pleasure of the Text] (nonfiction) 1973

Roland Barthes [Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes] (autobiography) 1975

Fragments d'un discours amoureux [A Lover's Discourse: Fragments] (nonfiction) 1977

‡Image-Music-Text (essays) 1977

Leçon inaugurale faite le venredi 7 janvier 1977 [“Inaugural Lecture, Collège de France”] (lecture) 1977

Sollers écrivain [Writer Sollers] (criticism) 1979

Le chambre claire: Note sur la photographie [Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography] (nonfiction) 1980

A Barthes Reader (essays) 1981

Le grain de la voix: Entretiens 1962-1980 [The Grain of the Voice: Interviews, 1962-1980] (interviews) 1981

Obvie et l‘obtus [The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation] (essays) 1982

Le bruissement de la langue [The Rustle of Language] (nonfiction) 1984

L'aventure sémiologique [The Semiologic Adventure] (criticism) 1985

Incidents [Incidents] (criticism) 1987

Oeuvres complètes 3 vols. (criticism, essays, autobiography) 1993-95

*This work includes translations of essays from the 1957 edition of Mythologies that were omitted from the 1972 partial translation.

†This work includes a reprint of Le degré zéro de l'écriture along with eight essays written between 1961 and 1972.

‡The essays comprising this work were selected and translated by Stephen Heath.