Nel 1991 pubblicò Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo, seguito nel 1996 da The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity.[3]
Susan J Napier, Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women and Sailor Scouts, in Martinez, Dolores P (a cura di), The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN0-521-63128-9.
Susan J. Napier, From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2007, p. 272, ISBN1-4039-6214-6.
Susan J Napier, Meet Me on the Other Side:Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese literature, London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 38-55, ISBN978-0-415-36185-9.
Susan J. Napier, Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Japanese Animation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 384, ISBN978-1-4039-7052-7.
Susan J. Napier, When the Machine Stops: Fantasy, Reality, and Terminal Identity in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments: Lain, in Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, p. 269, ISBN978-0-8166-4973-0.
Susan J. Napier, Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art, Yale University Press, 2018, p. 344, ISBN978-0-300-22685-0.