Performative Acts and Gender Constitution (1988)
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Cinsiyet Belası: Feminizm ve Kimlik Bozulması) (1990)
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (Bela Bedenler) (1993)
Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (Seyla Benhabib, Nancy Fraser, Drucilla Cornell ile) (1995)
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (İktidarın Psişik Yaşamı: Tabiyet Üzerine Teoriler) (1997)
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997)
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (Slavoj Žižek ve Ernesto Laclau ile) (2000)
Undoing Gender (2004)
Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004)[15]
Giving an Account of Oneself (2005)
Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ile) (2007)
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (2009)
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Biziz, Halk! Toplanma Özgürlüğü Üzerine Düşünceler) (2015)
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020)