Major Works
- Sous le soleil de Satan 1926 (published in English as Under the Sun of Satan, made into a film with the same name by Maurice Pialat in 1987, winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes)
- L'imposture 1927
- La joie 1929 (winner of the Prix Femina)
- La grande peur des bien-pensants 1931
- Jeanne relapse et sainte 1934
- Un crime 1935
- Journal d'un curé de campagne 1936 (winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, published in English by Boriswood, London in 1937 as Diary of a Country Priest, made into a film by Robert Bresson in 1951)
- Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette 1937 (made into the 1967 film Mouchette by Robert Bresson)
- Les grands cimetières sous la lune 1938 (A Diary of My Times)
- Scandale de la vérité 1939
- Nous autres Français 1939
- Monsieur Ouine 1943
- Lettre aux anglais 1946 (originally published in Rio de Janeiro in 1942)
- La France contre les robots 1947 (originally published in Rio de Janeiro in 1946)
- Le chemin de la Croix-des-Âmes 1948
- Dialogues des carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites) 1949 — screenplay and later libretto adaptation of Gertrud von Le Fort's Song at the Scaffold
- Les enfants humiliés 1949
- Un mauvais rêve 1950
- La liberté, pour quoi faire ? 1953
- Français, si vous saviez 1961 (collection of articles written between 1945–1948)
- Combat pour la vérité; Correspondance inédite 1904-1934 1961
- Combat pour la liberté; Correspondance inédite 1934-1948 1961
- La vocation spirituelle de la France 1975 (collection of articles assembled by J.-L. Bernanos)
- Les prédestinés 1983 (includes "Sainte Dominique" 1926, "Jeanne relapse et sainte," and "Frère Martin" 1943)
- Lettres retrouvées. Correspondance inédite 1904-1948 1983
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