Prose collections include: Fallen Leaves, Scales of Paris, Self-Dissection, Autumn and Roulette;
The novel Spring Scar;
The drama Bian Kungang (co-written with Lu Xiaoman), the diaries Ai Mei Xiao Za and Zhi Mo Diary;
Translate Mansfield's Novels, etc.
His works have been compiled and published as Collected Works of Xu Zhimo.
Xu Shi's poems are fresh, harmonious in rhythm, novel in metaphor, rich in imagination, beautiful in artistic conception, elegant in thinking, rich in variety, and pursuing put in order and gorgeous in artistic form, with distinctive artistic personality, and he is a representative poet of the Crescent School. His prose is sui generis, and has achieved no less achievements than poetry. Among them, Self-Dissection, Want to Fly, Cambridge as I Know It, and Chatting in a Jade Mountain Residence are all famous works handed down from generation to generation.