| Oulipo: a primer of potential literature WF Motte (No Title), 1986 | 330 | 1986 |
| Small worlds: Minimalism in contemporary French literature WF Motte U of Nebraska Press, 1999 | 132 | 1999 |
| Playtexts: Ludics in contemporary literature WF Motte U of Nebraska Press, 1995 | 116 | 1995 |
| The poetics of experiment: A study of the work of Georges Perec WF Motte French Forum, 1984 | 76 | 1984 |
| Clinamen redux WF Motte Comparative Literature Studies 23 (4), 263-281, 1986 | 59 | 1986 |
| Fables of the novel: French fiction since 1990 WF Motte Dalkey Archive Press, 2003 | 54 | 2003 |
| Annie Ernaux's Understatement W Motte French Review, 55-67, 1995 | 46 | 1995 |
| Questioning Edmond Jabès WF Motte University of Nebraska Press, 1990 | 43 | 1990 |
| The Work of Mourning W Motte Yale French Studies, 56-71, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Playing in earnest W Motte New Literary History 40 (1), 25-42, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Fiction now: the French novel in the twenty-first century WF Motte Dalkey Archive Press, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| Reflections on mirrors WF Motte mln 120 (4), 774-789, 2005 | 24 | 2005 |
| Georges Perec and the Broken Book W Motte Auschwitz and After, 235-249, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Reading Georges Perec W Motte Context 11, 4-5, 2002 | 17 | 2002 |
| Calvino's Combinatorics WF Motte Review of Contemporary Fiction 6 (2), 81-87, 1986 | 17 | 1986 |
| Toussaint's small world W Motte Romanic Review 86 (4), 747, 1995 | 15 | 1995 |
| Raymond Queneau and the aesthetic of formal constraint WF Motte Romanic review 82 (2), 193, 1991 | 15 | 1991 |
| Georges Perec on the grid WF Motte The French Review 57 (6), 820-832, 1984 | 15 | 1984 |
| Raymond Queneau and the early Oulipo W Motte French Forum 31 (1), 41-54, 2006 | 14 | 2006 |
| Constraint on the Move W Motte Poetics Today 30 (4), 719-735, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
