Barletta is the author of a number of books. Rhythm: Form and Dispossession is his most recent work (Chicago, 2020). The book talks about rhythm in three different time periods, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Covert Gestures, Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain (University of Minnesota, 2005) and Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and the Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient (University of Minnesota, 2007) are two other books (Chicago, 2010). In 2007, Covert Gestures won the La corónica book prize.