Suggested Reading List

• 1Q84 by Harumi Murakami
• 3 Strange Tales by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
• A Quiet Life by Oe 
• A Man of Many Masks by Kobo Abe
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami  
• After Dark by Murakami
• After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima 
• All She Was Worth by Miyabe  
• Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
• Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
• Audition by Ryu Murakami
• Battle Royale by Takami
• Be With You Takuji Ichikawa
• Beauty and Sadness by Kawabata
• Beyond the Blossoming Field by Jun'ichi Watanabe
• Be With You by Takuji Ichikawa
• Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
• Botchan by Natsume Soseki
• Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
• Clouds of Sparrow by Takashi Matsuoka 
• Colorless Tzukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
• Confessions of A Mask by Mishima
• Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
• Crossfire by Miyuke Miyabi
• Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
• Dark Water by Koji Suzuki
• Diary of a Mad Old Man by Tanizaki
• Doubt by Tonogai
• Dreaming Pachinko by Adamson
• Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
• First Snow on Fuji by Kawabata
• Five by Endo by Endo
• Flowers of Grass by Takehigo Fukunaga 
• Frozen Dreams by Yahei Tatematsu
• Ghost in The Shell by Yamada 
• Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
• Grotesque by Naomi Kirino
• Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murkami
• Hard Boiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
• Harmony by Itoh
• Hear The Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami 
• Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
• House of The Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Kawabata
• I am A Cat by Natsume
• In a Grove by Akutagawa
• In Praise of Shadows by Juni-chiro Tanizaki
• In Search Of A Distant Voice by Taichi Yamada
• In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
• Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto
• Kafka On The Shore by Murakami
• Keiku's Prayer by Shusaku Endo
• Kitchen by Yoshimoto
• Kokoro by Soseki
• Kusamakura by Soseki
• Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
• Masks by Fumiko Enchi
• Master of Go by Kawabata
• Naomi: A novel by Junichio Tanizaki 
• Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Oe 
• N. P. by Banana Yoshimoto
• Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai 
• Norwegian Wood by Murakami 
• Now You're One Of Us by Nonami
• Out by Natuso Kirino 
• Palm-of-The-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsu
• Piercing by Ryu Murakami 
• Quicksand by Junichiro Tanazaki 
• Rashomon by Akutagawa
• Real World by Natsuo Kirino
• Remains of The Day by Ishiguro
• Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
• Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale by Nagai Kafu
• Rouse Up O Young Men of The New Age by Oe
• Rue de la Nuit by Misuzu Oyama
• Runaway Horses by Mishima
• Shadow Family by Miyuke Miyabe 
• Sanshiro by Shoseki 
• Shame in The Blood by Tetsuo Miura
• Silence by Shisaku Endo
• Singing Shijimi Clams by Kojima
• Singular Rebellion by Maruya
• Snakes and Earrings by Kanehara
• Snow Country by Kawabata
• Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki
• Supermarket by Azuchi
• Stained Glass Elegies by Shusaku Endo
• Strangers by Yamada 
• Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda
• Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe
• Ten Nights' Dreams by Soseki
• The Bells of Nagasaki by Nagai
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
• The Box Man by Kobo Abe 
• The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami
• The Buddha in The Attic by Julie Otsuka
• The Dancing Girl of Izu by Kawabata
• The Dark Room by Yoshiyuki
• The Day He Himself Shall Wipe Away My Tears by Kenzaburo Oe
• The Decay of The Angel by Mishima
• The Devotion of Suspect X
• The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu 
• The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Ogawa
• The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami 
• The Fox Woman by Johnson
• The Gate by Soseki
• The Housekeeper and The Professor by Ogawa
• The Key by by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
• The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Name of The Flower by Kuniko Mukado
• The Old Capital by Kawabata
• The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
• The Maid by Tsutsui 
• The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
• The Master Key by Masako Togawa 
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Basho 
• The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
• The Reed Cutter by Tanizaki 
• The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa
• The River Ki by Ariyoshi
• The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Mishima
• The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima
• The Sea and Poison by Shusako Endo
• The Setting Sun by Dazai
• The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
• The Sound of Waves by Mishima 
• The Square Persimmon by Takashi Atoda
• The Stationmaster by Asada
• The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
• The 210th Day by Natsume Souseki
• The Tale of Genji by Shikibu
• The Tatto Murder Case by Akamitsu Tigaki
• The Temple of The Golden Pavilion by Mishima
• The Thief by Fuminori Yakamura
• The Thousand Cranes by Kawabata
• The Three-Cornered World by Soseki Natsume
• The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Shimada
• The Tragic Love of Two Enemies by Ihara Saikaku
• The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
• The Wild Geese by Mori
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
• The Woman In The Dunes by Abe 
• Thirst for Love by Mishima
• Ukigumo by Shimei Futabetai
• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Murakami
• Volcano by Shusaku Endo
• Villain by Shuichi Yoshida 
• Wind and Snow 
• Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami
• When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo
• When The Emporer Was Divine by Otsuka
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Yakuza Moon by Tendo