The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2011.

Living With His Camera. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Anecdotal Theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Chinese Translation: Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies, 5&6, 1999.
Turkish Translation by Alev Özkazanç (featuring a new introduction by Gallop) Ankara: Dipnot Yayinlari, 2013.

Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Thinking Through the Body. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Paperback, 1990. Chinese Translation: Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, 2004.

Reading Lacan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, 1986. Paperback, 1987. Japanese Translation: Iwanami Shoten, 1990. Portuguese Translation: Imago Editora, 1992.

The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. London: Macmillan Press; and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. Paperback, 1984. Japanese Translation: Keiso Shobo, 2000.

Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. (Dissertation)