- *Beat Pop*: Winner of the Akutagawa Prize(1980)
- *Tokyo Love-In*
- *A Wild Sheep Chase*: Haruki Murakami called this novel's protagonist "one of the truly memorable characters in postwar Japanese literature." Translated by Alfred Birnbaum in 1989.
- *Piercing*: Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2003). (Japanese title *Piasshingu*) Translated by Charles De Wolf. Originally serialized in Japanese from 1994 to 1995, the English editions contain five parts: First Love, Piercing, Love Affair, Piercing II, and The Final Chapter Piercing, all with commentary; the "Part Five commentary" contains an autobiography in English.
- *Hit and Run (novel)*: Translated by Michael Emmerich
Short story collections:
- *The Love Lives of Portuguese Dogs *