Romans
1976
Patternmaster • Doubleday (Patternmaster 1)
Le Maître du réseau • Presses de la Cité, Futurama 2ème série n°12 • 4T/1977
1977
Mind of My Mind • Doubleday (Patternmaster 2)
Le motif • Opta CLA n°72 • 1T/1980
1978
Survivor • Doubleday (Patternmaster 3)
La survivante • Opta CLA n°74 • 2T/1980
1979
Kindred • Doubleday
1980
Wild Seed • Doubleday (Patternmaster 4) (Prix Locus et James Tiptree Jr.)
1984
Clay's Ark • St. Martin's (Patternmaster 5) (Prix Locus)
Humains, plus qu'humains • Presses de la Cité, Futurama « Superlights » n°23 • 02/1985
1987
Dawn • Warner (Xenogenesis 1) (Prix Locus)
1988
Adulthood Rites • Warner (Xenogenesis 2) (Prix Locus)
1989
Imago • Warner (Xenogenesis 3) (Prix Locus)
Xenogenesis • SFBC (Recueil des 3 Xenogenesis)
1993
Parable of the Sower • Four Walls Eight Windows (Parable of the Sower 1)
(Prix Locus, Hugo et Nebula)
La Parabole du semeur • J'ai lu, SF n°3948 • 1995/05
1998
Parable of the Talents • Seven Stories Press (Parable of the Sower 2)
(Prix Locus, Nebula et James Tiptree Jr.)
2000
Lilith's Brood • Warner (Recueil des 3 Xenogenesis)
Nouvelles
1971
Crossover • Clarion, ed. Robert Scott Wilson, Signet
1979
Near of Kin • Chrysalis 4, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra
1983
Speech Sounds • IASFM • mid-Dec '83 (Prix Locus et Hugo)
1984
Bloodchild • IASFM • Jun '84 (Prix Locus, Hugo, Nebula et SF Chronicle)
1987
The Evening and the Morning and the Night • Omni • May '87
(Prix Locus, Nebula et SF Chronicle)
Le Soir et le Matin et la Nuit • J'ai lu Univers 1989 n°2572 • 03/1989
Non publié
Childfinder
Recueils de nouvelles
1995
Bloodchild and Other Stories Four Walls Eight Windows (Prix Locus)
• Bloodchild • IASFM • Jun '84
• The Evening and the Morning and the Night • Omni • May '87
• Near of Kin • Chrysalis 4, ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra • 1979
• Speech Sounds • IASFM • mid-Dec '83
• Crossover • Clarion, ed. Robert Scott Wilson, Signet • 1971
• Positive Obsession (article)
• Furor Scribendi • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IX, ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge • 1993 (article)
Articles et essais
1993
Furor Scribendi • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IX, ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge
1995
Positive Obsession • Bloodchild and Other Stories, Four Walls Eight Windows
1989
The Birth of a Writer • Essence 20(1) • May '89
1999
How I Built Novels Out of Writer's Block • Writer's Digest 79(6) • June 1989
2000
The Monophobic Response • Dark Matter : A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora, Sheree R. Thomas ed., Warner
Sur l'auteur
1986
Suzy McKee Charnas, Joan Vinge, Octavia Butler par M. S. Barr, R. Law & R. Salvaggio Starmont House
1988
Octavia E. Butler par Charles N. Brown Locus v21 :10 No.333 Oct '88 (Interview)
1996
Embracing Otherness : An Examination of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy par Mary M. Talbot Kimota #5
Octavia E. Butler Mouths Off ! par J. B. Berends & T. Kelly, Terra Incognita Win '96 (Interview)
1997
An Interview with Octavia E. Butler par Steven Piziks MZBFM Aut '97
2000
Octavia E. Butler : Persistence Locus No.473 Jun '00 (Interview)
