" The Island of the Day Before " (1995) (L'isola del giorno prima, 1994) -- A novel about a 17th century nobleman marooned across the international date line;
"The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas" (1988, Revised) (Il problema estetico in San Tommaso, 1956)
"Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages" (1985) ("Sviluppo dell'estetica medievale" in "Momenti e problemi di storia dell'estetica", 1959)
"The Open Work" (1989) (from the 1976 edition of Opera Aperta, 1962, with other essays added).
"Misreadings" (1993) (Diario minimo,1963)
"Apocalypse Postponed" (1994) (Apocalittici e integrati, 1964; partial translation, with other texts added)
"The Middle Ages of James Joyce" (AKA The Aesthetics of Chaosmos) (1989) (Le poetiche di Joyce, 1965)
"Travels in Hyperreality" (AKA Faith in Fakes) (1986) (Il costume di casa, 1973, Dalla periferia dell'impero, 1977, Sette anni di desiderio, 1983)
"A Theory of Semiotics" (1976) (Original English version of Trattato di semiotica generale, 1975)
"The Role of the Reader : Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts" (1979) (Containing essays from Opera aperta (1962) , Apocalittici e integrati (1964), Forme del contenuto (1971), Il Superuomo di massa (1976), Lector in Fabula (1979)).
"Postscript to The Name of the Rose" (1984) (Postille al nome della rosa 1983)
"Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language" (1984) (Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio, 1984)
"The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics)" (1990) (I limiti dell'interpretazione, 1990)
"How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays" (1998) (Partial translation of Il secondo diario minimo, 1994)
"Interpretation and Overinterpretation" (1992)(with R. Rorty, J. Culler, C. Brooke-Rose; Edited by S.Collini)
"The Search for the Perfect Language (The Making of Europe)" (1995) (La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea, 1993) on auxiliary and philosophical language s.
"Six Walks in the Fictional Woods" (1994)
"Incontro - Encounter - Rencontre (1996) (in Italian, English, French)
"Belief or Nonbelief? : A Dialogue" (2000) (In cosa crede chi non crede? (with Carlo Maria Martini), 1996).
"Five Moral Pieces" (2001) (Cinque scritti morali, 1997)
" " (1999) (Kant e l’ornitorinco, 1997)
"Serendipities : Language and Lunacy" (1998)
"Experiences in Translation" (2000)
"Mouse or Rat? : Translation as negotiation" (2003)