Books/Novels

• The Blind Alley (1966) - collection of short stories, including:

"The Blind Alley"; "Enrolment Day"; "Addeh"; "Album"; "Convelesance" (Czech translation appeared in Novy Orient 7/71); "Pregnancy"; "Kaandaass"; "The Heat"; "Two Women"; "The Dogs"; "Nausea".

• Bibi Khanom’s Starling (1968) - collection of short stories, including:

"Bibi Khanom’s Starling" (two French translations by two different translators); "Brother’s Future Family" (translated by M. Beard in Chicago Anthology/ Stories from Iran; also translated by J. E. Knörzer under the title "Big Brother’s Future In-Laws"); "Ya’ghoub the Subtle" (French translation by M. Ghaffary); "The Russet Cockroach"; "Khoramshar-Tehran"; "Rain and Loneliness" (German translation "Regen und Einsamkeit" in Die Beiden Ehemänner, Prosa aus Iran, Berlin: Rütten & Loening); "My Grandfather is ..." (translated by J. E. Knörzer in Suri & Co.); "Counting the Chicks Before they are Hatched"; "Party"; "The Smell of Lemon Peel; the Smell of Fresh Milk" (translated by H. Moayyad in Stories from Iran, 1991).

• After the Last Day (1969) - A collection of short stories, including:

"After the Last Day" (translated by J. Green: Stories by Iranian Women, Heinemann); "Women’s Mourning Ceremony" (see Suri & Co.); "Agha Soltan from Kermanshah"; "The End of Passion Play" (translated by M. Southgate: Modern Persian Short Stories, Three Continents Press); "The Christening of Simin’s Baby" (see Suri & Co.); "The Mist of the Valley, the Dust of the Road"; "Interview" (see Suri & Co.); "Here and Now" (translated by R. Monajem; Iran Peyvand's Literature).

• First Person Singular (1970) - collection of short stories, including:

"Labyrinth" (translated by Micheal Beard under the title "The String of Beads", Edebiyât, vol. III, No. 1, 1978); "Payton Place" (see Stories by Iranian Women, Heinemann; also Suri & Co.); "Last Name…, First Name…, No. of Birth Certificate…"; "Paykan Place" (see Suri & Co.); "The Sun Under Grand Dad’s Pelisse".

• Mahshid, Amirshahi (1995). Suri & Co.: Tales of a Persian Teenage Girl (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series). Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-292-70463-3.
• An Anthology of Short Stories (1972)
• Mahshid, Amirshahi (1982). Yekrangi یکرنگی.
• At Home (1987) – A Novel of Iran's Revolution [Persian Title: Dar Hazar]
• Mahshid, Amirshahi (1995). Dar Hazar. p. 428. ISBN 978-1-883-81908-8. – A novel about Iranians in Exile
• Mahshīd, Amīrshāhī (1995). Dar Safar. p. 458. ISBN 978-1-883-81906-4. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
• Short Stories (1998) - including the four previous collections & "The Tune of the Lonely Bird" and "Maryam’s Messiah"
• Mahshīd, Amīrshāhī (1998). Dāstānhā-yi kūtāh. p. 458. ISBN 978-9-188-29698-6. Retrieved 2023-01-31.
• Abbass Khan’s Wedding (1998) – Book One of a quartet called Mothers and Daughters
• Dadeh Good Omen (1999) – Book Two of Mothers and Daughters
• Miscellaneous (2000) – [Persian title: Hezaar Bishe] An anthology of Views, Reviews and Interviews in Persian, English and French
• Shahrbanoo’s Honeymoon (2001) – Book Three of Mothers and Daughters
• CD – Short Stories Read by the Author
• Persian Fables for Our Time (2010)
• Mehre-Oli'a‘s Reminiscences (2010) - Book Four and final volume of Mothers and Daughters
• Mahshid, Amirshahi (2012). Modern Persian Short Stories.

Other literary works

A few of her short stories have been translated into French, German, Czech, Bulgar, Arabic. The following are translated into English:

• Mahshid, Amirshahi; Nasrin, Rahimieh; Knörzer, J. E. (1996). "Suri & Co.: Tales of a Persian Teenager". World Literature Today. 70 (1): 234. doi:10.2307/40152016. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
• Mahshid, Amirshahi (1998). Dāstānhā-yi kūtāh. ISBN 978-9-188-29698-6.
• "String of Beads". Translated by Michael Beard, Edebiyât, Vol II, n°1, 1978
• "After the Last Day". Translated by John Green
• Peyton Place: Tehran 1972. Translated by Micheal Beard, Heinemann, 1993
• "The End of the Passion Play". Translated by Minoo Southgate & Bjorn Robinson Rye, in Modern Persian Short Stories, Three Continents Press, 1980
• "Brother’s Future Family". Translated by Micheal Beard
• "The Smell of Lemon Peel, the Smell of Fresh Milk". Translated by Heshmat Moayyad, in Stories from Iran, A Chicago Anthology 1921–1991, Mage Publishers, 1991.
• Vafa, Amirhossein (2018). "Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi's Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr". Iranian Studies. 51 (1): 141–160. doi:10.1080/00210862.2017.1350095. Retrieved 2022-07-20.