| Selected books in Japanese |
| Kanjō sōshoku. – Tokyo : Kinseidō, 1926 |
| Izu no odoriko. – Tokyo : Kinseidō, 1927 (1926?) |
| Boku no hyō honshitsu. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1930 |
| Hana aru shashin. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1930 |
| Asakusa kurenaidan. – Tokyo : Senshinsha, 1930 |
| Kinju. – Tokyo : Noda Shobō, 1935 |
| Yukiguni. – Tokyo : Sōgensha, 1937. – Rev. ed. 1948 |
| Tampenshu. – Tokyo : Sunagoya Shobō, 1939 |
| Aisuru hitotachi. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1941 |
| Sembazuru. – Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō, 1952 |
| Yama no oto. – Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō, 1954 |
| Meijin. – Tokyo : Bungei Shunju Shinsha, 1954 |
| Mizuumi. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1955 |
| Nemureru bijo. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1961 |
| Koto. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1962 |
| Utsukushisa to kanashimi to. – Tokyo : Chuō Kōronsha, 1965 |
| Kataude. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1965 |
| Utsukushii Nihon no watakushi – sono josetsu. – Tokyo : Kōdansha, 1969 |
| Kawabata Yasunari zenshu. – Tokyo : Shinchōsha, 1980-84. – 37 vol. |
| Translations into English |
| The Izu Dancer and Others / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker and others. – Tokyo : Harashobo, 1964. – Republished as The Izu Dancer, and Other Stories. – Tokyo & Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle, 1974 |
| Snow Country / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1956 |
| Thousand Cranes / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1959 |
| The Existence and Discovery of Beauty / translated by V. H. Viglielmo. – Tokyo : Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1969 |
| House of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Kodansha International, 1969 |
| Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself : The 1968 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Kodansha International, 1969 |
| Snow Country ; and, Thousand Cranes : the Nobel Prize Edition of Two Novels / translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1969 |
| The Sound of the Mountain / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1970 |
| The Master of Go / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1972 |
| The Lake / translated by Reiko Tsukimura. – New York : Kodansha International, 1974 |
| Beauty and Sadness / translated by Howard Hibbett. – New York : Knopf, 1975 |
| The Old Capital / translated by J. Martin Holman. – Berkeley, Cal. : North Point Press, 1987 |
| Palm-of-the-Hand Stories / translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman. – San Francisco : North Point Press, 1988 |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories / translated by J. Martin Holman. – Washington, DC : Counterpoint, 1997 |
| First Snow on Fuji / translated by Michael Emmerich. – Washington, D. C. : Counterpoint, 1999 |
| Tales With Two Souls : a Variety in Time and Culture / translated by Peter Metevelis. – Pittsburgh, Pa. : Dorrance Pub. Co., 1999 |
| The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa / translated with preface and notes by Alisa Freedman. – Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005 |
The Swedish Academy, 2006