Suggested Reading List

Gleaned from my own research, as well as review posts from the Japanese Literature Challenges 1, 2, 3, and 4, here is a list of Japanese literature from which to choose. It is by no means complete, only a starting place for the great works available to us in this genre.

• A Quiet Life by Oe
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• After Dark by Murakami
• After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
• All She Was Worth by Miyabe
• Asleep by Yoshimoto
• Audition by Ryu Murakami
• 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
• Confessions of A Mask by Mishima
• Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
• Diary of a Mad Old Man by Tanizaki
• Doubt by Tonogai 
• Dreaming Pachinko by Adamson
• First Snow on Fuji by Kawabata
• Five by Endo by Endo
• Ghost in The Shell by Yamada
• Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
• 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
• I am A Cat by Natsume
• In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
• Kafka On The Shore by Murakami
• Kitchen by Yoshimoto
• Kokoro by Soseki
• Kusamakura by Soseki
• 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
• 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
• 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 Endo
• Singing Shijimi Clams by Kojima
• Singular Rebellion by Maruya
• 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 Dancing Girl of Izu by Kawabata
• The Dark Room by Yoshiyuki
• The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Ogawa
• The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami
• The Fox Woman by Johnson
• The Housekeeper and The Professor by Ogawa
• The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Old Capital by Kawabata
• The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
• 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 Shonagon
• The Reed Cutter by Tanizaki
• 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
• Strangers by Taichi Yamada
• The 210th Day by Natsume Souseki
• The Tale of Genji by Shikibu
• The Temple of The Golden Pavilion by Mishima
• The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Shimada 
• The Tragic Love of Two Enemies by Ihara Saikaku
• The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
• The Woman In The Dunes by Abe
• Thirst for Love by Mishima
• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Murakami
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami
• When The Emporer Was Divine by Otsuka
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Yakuza Moon by Tendo