In 2008 Yuzuki won the 88th All Yomimono Prize for New Writers for the story "Forget Me, Not Blue", about bullying in a Protestant all-girls school in Tokyo. The story was first published in the literary magazine
All Yomimono and later collected with three other connected stories into the 2010 volume '''', which became Yuzuki's first published book. Yuzuki published several books in 2013, including '
, ', and ''
. Ōhi no kikan
, a novel about a pretty girl who enters a clique of less popular manga and idol otaku girls in middle school, was published by Jitsugyō no Nihonsha. It was later adapted into a 2018 NHK radio drama. '', a book containing four connected short stories about the increasingly personal relationship between a young office worker and her older female boss, was published by
Futabasha. It was later adapted into a 2015 NHK BS Premium television drama of the same name, starring
Misako Renbutsu and
Naho Toda. ''
, a series of linked short stories about different women who are each interested in the same man, was published in 2013 by Gentosha. Ito-kun A to E'' was nominated for the 150th
Naoki Prize, marking Yuzuki's first nomination for the prize. She did not win, as the 150th Naoki Prize was awarded to
Makate Asai and
Kaoruko Himeno. The book was later adapted into the 2017 romantic comedy television series
The Many Faces of Ito, starring
Fumino Kimura and directed by
Ryūichi Hiroki. A movie version was also released in theaters. Yuzuki was subsequently nominated for the Naoki Prize several more times. Her novel '''', a story about a years-long friendship between two girls from different backgrounds, was published by
Shinchosha in 2014 and nominated for the 151st Naoki Prize. She did not win, as the award went to Hiroyuki Kurakawa. In 2015 Yuzuki's novel ''
, a story about two women whose lives intersect as one blackmails the other, was published by Bungeishunjū. Nile Perch Women's Club'' won the 28th
Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. It was also nominated for the 153rd
Naoki Prize, but the award went to comedian
Naoki Matayoshi. Yuzuki's fourth Naoki Prize nomination came in 2017, when her novel
BUTTER was nominated for the 157th
Naoki Prize.
BUTTER, a story about a reporter investigating a woman accused of luring men with her cooking and then killing them, was loosely based on an actual series of suspicious deaths of middle-aged men that led to murder convictions and a death sentence for
Kanae Kijima. Yuzuki did not win the 157th Naoki Prize, as the award went to
Shogo Sato. In 2018, Yuzuki's novel '
was published by Shōdensha. The following year she was nominated a fifth time for the Naoki Prize, for her book '. Yuzuki's 2017 novel BUTTER was translated into English by
Polly Barton and published in 2024 as
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder, her first book to be published in English. It was named
Waterstones Book of the Year 2024. Her 2015 novel
Nairu pāchi no joshikai was also translated into English by Barton and published in 2026 as
Hooked: A Novel of Obsession. ==Recognition==