- Morts sans sépulture (Deaths without burial; aka The Victors), 1946
- Baudelaire, 1947
- Situations, 1947 –1965
- "Orphée Noir" (Black Orpheus), introduction to Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache. edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1948
- Les Jeux sont faits (The Game is Up), 1952
- Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr, 1952
- Nekrassov, 1955
- Existentialism and Human Emotions, 1957
- The Problem of Method, 1957
- Les Séquestrés d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona), 1959
- "Preface" to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
- Colonialism and Neocolonialism, 1964
- Les Mots (The Words), 1964, autobiographical
- L'Idiot de la famille (The Family Idiot), 1971–1972 - on Gustave Flaubert
- Cahiers pour une morale (Notebooks for Ethics), 1983, 1947-48 notes on ethics
- Les Carnets de la drôle de guerre: Novembre 1939 - Mars 1940 (War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-1940), 1984, notebooks from Sartre's time in the Phony War of 1939-1940