# Osamu Dazai's best works

Osamu Dazai's key works that top bookstore and book-guide rankings, from No Longer Human, The Setting Sun and Run, Melos! to classic short stories.

- 46 votes · 14 items
- Nov 29, 2025 · Suzuki M.
- https://even.best/en/l/2814/osamu-dazai-s-best-works

## Top 14

1. **No Longer Human** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1948. The collapse of a man who always played the clown; one of Japan's most-read novels.
2. **Run, Melos!** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1940. A hopeful short story about friendship.
3. **Schoolgirl** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1939. A girl's day told as a monologue.
4. **Villon's Wife** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1947. The story of a self-destructive poet's wife.
5. **Pandora's Box** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1945-1946. An epistolary novel about young people in a sanatorium.
6. **Kakekomi Uttae** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1940. Judas's monologue.
7. **Good-bye** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1948. His unfinished last work.
8. **Hazakura to Mateki** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1939. A poignant story of two sisters.
9. **The Setting Sun** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1947. A declining aristocratic family; a bestseller.
10. **One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1939. Days spent looking at Mount Fuji.
11. **Ōtō (Cherries)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1948. A late short story.
12. **Otogizōshi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1945. Folk tales boldly retold.
13. **Bannen (Declining Years)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1936. His first collection.
14. **Tsugaru** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1944. A journey back to his homeland.

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