Fiction

• Kao ni furikakeru ame (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993)
• Tenshi ni misuterareta yoru (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1994)
• Auto (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1997); English translation by Stephen Snyder as Out (New York: Kodansha, 2003; New York: Vintage, 2005)
• Mizu no nemuri hai no yume (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1998)
• Faiaboro burusu [Fireball Blues] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1998)
• Yawarakana hoho (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1999); French translation by Silvain Chupain as Disparitions (Paris: Rocher, 2002)
• Gyokuran (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2001)
• Dâku [Dark] (Tokyo: Kodansha: 2002)
• Gurotesuku (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2003); English translation by Rebecca L. Copeland as Grotesque (New York: Knopf, 2007)
• Kogen (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2003)
• Riaru warudo (Tokyo: Shueisha, 2003); English translation by J. Philip Gabriel as Real World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
• Zangyakuki (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2004); English translation as What Remains (London: Harvill Secker, 2008)
• Tamamoe! (Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2005)
• Boken no kuni (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2005)
• Metabora (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2007)
• Tokyo-jima (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2008)

• Sabiru kokoro (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1997)
• Jiorama [Diorama] (Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1998)
• Rozu gâden [Rose Garden] (Tokyo: Kodansha, 2000)
• Ambosu mundosu [Ambos Mundos] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 2005)

Quotes

Works on Kirino

• Rebecca L. Copeland, "Woman uncovered: pornography and power in the detective fiction of Kirino Natsuo", Japan Forum 16/2 (2004): 249-69
• Amanda C. Seaman, Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004), 86-118
• Idem, "Inside OUT: Space, Gender, and Power in Kirino Natsuo", Japanese Language and Literature 40/2 (2006): 197-217