Novels

• Tamayura (????: Transience), which portrays the nihilistic daily life of man and woman
• Sat?-gashi-ga-kowareru-toki (??????????: When a Sweetmeat Breaks), modeled on Marilyn Monroe and made into a film starring Ayako Wakao (IMDb)
• Mumeihi (???: A Nameless Monument), featuring the construction sites of the Tagokura Dam and the Asian Highway
• Kizu-tsuita-ashi (?????: Bruised Reed), which describes in a most dry style a life of a Catholic Father
• Kyok?-no-ie (????: The House of Fiction), a bestseller depicting domestic violence
• Tar?-Monogatari (????: Taro Story), which features her son Taro as the protagonist
• Kami-No-Yogoreta-Te (??????: The Soiled Hands of God, translated into English as The Watcher from the Shore (ISBN 0-87011-938-9)), on the theme abortion and dignity of life problems, with a gynecologist as the protagonist
• Tenj?-no-ao (????: Heavenly Blue, translated into English as No Reason for Murder (ISBN 4-925080-63-6), a crime novel based on real serial murder and rape cases by a man named Kiyoshi ?kubo, which tries to describe the extremity of love
• Ky?-?-Herode (?????: Herod the Mad), which portrays the half life of Herod the Great, who is notorious for the Massacre of the Innocents, through the eye of a mute lute player called "Ana" (hole).
• Aika (??: Lamentations), a record of the dramatic experience of a nun Haruna, who encountered the Rwanda Genocide.

Shortstories

• Nagai-kurai-fuyu (?????: Long, Dark Winter), which is known as a masterpiece and anthologized often
• Rakuy?-no-koe (????: The Voice of Falling Leaves), which describes the end of Father Maximilian Kolbe
• Tadami-gawa (???: The River Tadami), which sings of a love torn apart by World War II

Essays

• The two million bestseller Dare-no-tame-ni-aisuruka? (?????????: For Whom Do You Love?)
• Kair?-roku (???: A note of Admonition to the Old) on the way how we behave in old age
• II-hito-o-yameruto-raku-ni-naru (??????????????: Stop Being ”Nice”, and You'll Be Liberated), a collection of epigrams

• Sono is also known as a conservative.
• In 2000, she welcomed Alberto Fujimori, ex-President of Peru, to stay at her house.
• After the death of Ryoichi Sasakawa, one of the biggest rightist leaders, Sono took over his position as the head of the “Nippon Foundation,”(????) whose funds come from 3 percent of the profits of the boat race all over Japan. As the chairperson, she had focused on welfare and assistance of undeveloped countries, until 30 June 2005, when her term of office finally expired after nine and a half years. The position of the foundation chairman was taken over by Yohei Sasakawa.
• She works as the president of an NGO named “Kaigai-senkyosha-katsudo-enjo-koenkai” (JOMAS :Japan Overseas Missionaries Assistance Society) to help Japanese missionaries devoting their lifetime in foreign countries.
• She has been selected as a Person of Cultural Merits in 2003, following her Husband’s honor in 1999.
• She was nominated as director of the Japan Post Holding Co.'s board by Shizuka Kamei, minister in charge of postal reform, in October 2009.