1967 What Man Has Built (introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series)
1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going
1969 Berlioz and the Romantic Century (3d ed.)
1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing
1971 A Catalogue of Crime (with Wendell Hertig Taylor)
1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century
1980 Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University
1982 Lincoln's Philosophic Vision
1982 Critical Questions
1983 A Stroll with William James
1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language
1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment
1991 An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English Poetry
1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
2000 From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass
2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader
2002 What is a School? and Trim the College!
2003 The Modern Researcher (6th ed.) (with Henry F. Graff)
2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001-2004
Barzun has also translated a number of works of French literature into English, and edited writings by others, including the selected letters of Lord Byron and John Jay Chapman.
