2023
- Pinocchio by: Carlo Collodi
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by: Haruki Murakami
- Asleep by: Banana Yoshimoto
- Selected Letters by: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- The Ghost Writer by: Philip Roth
- Novelist as a Vocation by: Haruki Murakami
- A Short History of Decay by: Emil Mihai Cioran
- Timaeus and Critias by: Plato
- The Story of the Stone Volume 3 by: Cao Xueqin
- The Woman in the Dunes by: Kōbō Abe
- The Universe and Dr. Einstein by: Lincoln Barnett
- The Romanians: A Concise History by: Mircea Eliade
- Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension by: Rudolf v. B. Rucker
- ‘Salem’s Lot by: Stephen King
- Fragil by: Simona Goșu
- Zuckerman Unbound by: Philip Roth
- Convenience Store Woman by: Sayaka Murata
- Schoolgirl by: Osamu Dazai
- The Hellbound Heart by: Clive Barker
- The Sign of Four by: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Life After God by: Douglas Coupland
- Five Preludes & A Fugue by: Cheon Heerahn
- Old Wrestler by: Jeon Sungtae
- Europa by: Han Kang
- Divorce by: Kim Soom
- Kong’s Garden by: Hwang Jungeun
- Milena, Milena, Ecstatic by: Bae Suah
- Demons by: Kang Hwagil
- Left’s Right by: Han Yujoo
- Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by: Sigmund Freud
- Aminitiri şi Poveşti mai deocheate by: Neagu Djuvara
- Diary of a Mad Old Man by: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- Seymour: An Introduction by: J. D. Salinger
- Notre-Dame de Paris by: Victor Hugo
- The Vegetarian by: Han Kang
- Foundation by: Isaac Asimov
- Quicksand by: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- Sweet Bean Paste by: Durian Sukegawa
- The Box Man by: Kōbō Abe
- Earthlings by: Sayaka Murata
- Foundation and Empire by: Isaac Asimov
- The Fabric of the Cosmos by: Brian Greene
- Second Foundation by: Isaac Asimov
- The Feather Thief by: Kirk Wallace Johnson
- The Lord of the Rings by: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Frumoasele Străine by: Mircea Cărtărescu
- The Anatomy Lesson by: Philip Roth
- In Praise of Failure by: Costică Brădățan
- The Prague Orgy by: Philip Roth
- Mother Night by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Trick by: Domenico Starnone
- Proof by: David Auburn
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- The Caretaker by: Harold Pinter
2022
- Neverwhere by: Neil Gaiman
- At the Edge of the World by: Masatsugu Ono
- Mikumari by: Misumi Kubo
- The Transparent Labyrinth by: Keiichirō Hirano
- The Keep by: Jennifer Egan
- Miss Wyoming by: Douglas Coupland
- Portnoy’s Complaint by: Philip Roth
- Our Gang by: Philip Roth
- The Breast by: Philip Roth
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by: David Foster Wallace
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by: Ken Liu
- The Diving Pool by: Yōko Ogawa
- Devils by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder by: Yukiko Motoya
- The Great American Novel by: Philip Roth
- Confessions of a Mask by: Yukio Mishima
- Protagoras by: Plato
- Submission by: Michel Houellebecq
- Cursed Bunny by: Bora Chung
- Sputnik Sweetheart by: Haruki Murakami
- Piranesi by: Susanna Clarke
- The Woman in the Purple Skirt by: Natsuko Imamura
- Chemistry by: Weike Wang
- Pe culmile disperării by: Emil Mihai Cioran
- Kafka on the Shore by: Haruki Murakami
- The Devotion of Suspect X by: Keigo Higashino
- Monkey Business: New Writing From Japan — Volume 1 by: Various
- The Complete Faity Tales by: Charles Perrault
- Venus in Furs by: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
- Absolutely on Music by: Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa
- The End of Gender by: Debra Soh
- Will Oldham on Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy by: Will Oldham and Alan Licht
- My Life as a Man by: Philip Roth
- Breasts and Eggs by: Mieko Kawakami
- Emerald City by: Jennifer Egan
- After Dark by: Haruki Murakami
- One Two Three…Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by: George Gamow
- Lost in Canada by: Lydia Perović
- The Illustrated Man by: Ray Bradbury
- A Parisian Affair by: Guy de Maupassant
- Cosmos by: Carl Sagan
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by: Carl Gustav Jung
- The Professor of Desire by: Philip Roth
- The Beatles – All These Years – Extended Special Edition: Volume One: Tune In: Book Two by: Mark Lewisohn
- Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love by: Haruki Murakami
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes by: Stephen King
- The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by: D. H. Lawrence
- De Ce Iubimi Femeile by: Mircea Cărtărescu
2021
- Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by: Yasunari Kawabata
- Men Without Women by: Haruki Murakami
- Friend of My Youth by: Alice Munro
- Friendship For Grown-Ups by: Nao-Cola Yamazaki
- Spring Sleepers by: Kyoko Yoshida
- Columbine by: Dave Cullen
- A Brief History of Religious Ideas Volume 1 by: Mircea Eliade
- A Man Without a Country by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Carrion Comfort by: Dan Simmons
- First Person Singular by: Haruki Murakami
- Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by: Raymond Carver
- Night Shift by: Stephen King
- Fragile Things by: Neil Gaiman
- after the quake by: Haruki Murakami
- The Collector by: John Fowles
- The Virgin Suicides by: Jeffrey Eugenides
- Philebus by: Plato
- The Scorpion God by: William Golding
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by: Jordan B. Peterson
- When She Was Good by: Philip Roth
- Confessions by: Kanae Minato
- Poems of Thomas Hardy by: Thomas Hardy (Ed: Claire Tomalin)
- Ms Ice Sandwich by: Mieko Kawakami
- Audition by: Ryū Murakami
- Slow Boat by: Hideo Furukawa
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul by: C. G. Jung
- Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Real World by: Natsuo Kirino
- The Martian Chronicles by: Ray Bradbury
- Missing Heels & The Gotthard Railway by: Yōko Tawada
- The Girl Who Is Getting Married by: Aoko Matsuda
2020
- Man’s Search For Meaning by: Viktor E. Frankl
- The Magus by: John Fowles
- I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by: Michelle McNamara
- The Coddling of the American Mind by: Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Palm Sunday by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Naked by: David Sedaris
- The Elements of Style by: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
- Moby Dick by: Herman Melville
- Early Socratic Dialogues by: Plato
- South of the Border, West of the Sun by: Haruki Murakami
- Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by: Haruki Murakami
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by: Anne Brontë
- Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Hotel Iris by: Yōko Ogawa
- Goodbye, Columbus by: Philip Roth
- Skeleton Crew by: Stephen King
- Masks by: Fumiko Enchi
- Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by: Epictetus
- The Beatles – All These Years – Extended Special Edition: Volume One: Tune In: Book One by: Mark Lewisohn
- In the Miso Soup by: Ryū Murakami
- Notes from the Underground by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Magicians by: Lev Grossman
2019
- Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, and Crito by: Plato
- Theaetetus by: Plato
- Symposium by: Plato
- Killing Commendatore by: Haruki Murakami
- Future Sex by: Emily Witt
- The 120 Days of Sodom by: The Marquis de Sade
- The Story of the Stone Volume 2 by: Cao Xueqin
- Collected Short Stories by: Roald Dahl
- Solitude by: Michael Harris
- Republic by: Plato
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by: Jules Verne
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by: Mason Currey
- Gorgias by: Plato
- Girlfriend in a Coma by: Douglas Coupland
- The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by: Edgar Allan Poe (Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy)
- Kokoro by: Natsume Sōseki
- Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by: Haruki Murakami
- Slaughterhouse-Five by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Misery by: Stephen King
- The Graveyard Book by: Neil Gaiman
- Metamorphoses by: Ovid
- The Portable Jung by: Carl Justav Jung (Ed. Joseph Campbell)
- Letting Go by: Philip Roth
- NP by: Banana Yoshimoto
- Boy by: Takeshi Kitano
- Snakes and Earrings by: Hitomi Kanehara
- The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain by: Mark Twain (Ed. Lawrence I. Berkove)
- Smoke and Mirrors by: Neil Gaiman
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by: Haruki Murakami
- Time Differences by: Yōko Tawada
- Stand-in Companion by: Kazufumi Shiraishi
2018
- The Magic Mountain by: Thomas Mann
- Aesop’s Fables by: Aesop
- Lala Pipo by: Hideo Okuda
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by: George Orwell
- The Trouble With Being Born by: Emil Mihai Cioran
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by: Susanna Clarke
- A Tale for the Time Being by: Ruth Ozeki
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by: Jordan B. Peterson
- Meno and Other Dialogues by: Plato
- Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio by: Pu Songling
- White Noise by: Don Delillo
- Notes of a Crocodile by: Qiu Miaojin
- Six Records of a Floating Life by: Shen Fu
- At the Mouth of the River of Bees by: Kij Johnson
- The Odyssey by: Homer
- 1Q84 by: Haruki Murakami
- The Tao of Pooh by: Benjamin Hoff
- The Te of Piglet by: Benjamin Hoff
- David Copperfield by: Charles Dickens
- Demian by: Hermann Hesse
- Pet Sematary by: Stephen King
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by: Douglas Adams
- Letters From a Stoic by: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Fairy Tales by: Hans Christian Andersen
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by: Haruki Murakami
- The Hobbit by: J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Complete Short Stories by: Oscar Wilde
- The Best of Richard Matheson by: Richard Matheson
- No One Belongs Here More Than You by: Miranda July
- The End of Absence by: Michael Harris
- The Little Prince by: Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Strange Library by: Haruki Murakami
- The Key by: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
2017
- S. by: Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams
- Watership Down by: Richard Adams
- The Elephant Vanishes by: Haruki Murakami
- The Gum Thief by: Douglas Coupland
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by: Neil Gaiman
- the briefcase by: Hiromi Kawakami
- Arvida by: Samuel Archibald
- A Wild Sheep Chase by: Haruki Murakami
- The Complete Cosmicomics by: Italo Calvino
- Frost by: Robert Frost
- The Count of Monte Cristo by: Alexandre Dumas
- Bagombo Snuff Box by: Kurt Vonnegut
- A Dirty Job by: Christopher Moore
- Hyperion by: Dan Simmons
- Revenge by: Yōko Ogawa
- Grotesque by: Natsuo Kirino
- The Story of the Stone Volume 1 by: Cao Xueqin
- Coin Locker Babies by: Ryū Murakami
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by: Douglas Hofstadter
- A Brief History of Time (Illustrated) by: Stephen Hawking
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by: H. P. Lovecraft
- Dance Dance Dance by: Haruki Murakami
2016
- Selected Tales by: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by: Philip K. Dick
- Benito Cereno by: Herman Melville
- Norwegian Wood by: Haruki Murakami
- Steppenwolf by: Hermann Hesse
- The Great Gatsby by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sirens of Titan by: Kurt Vonnegut
- The Magic Toyshop by: Angela Carter
- The Familiar: Volume 1 by: Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by: Yōko Ogawa
- The Karamazov Brothers by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Piercing by: Ryū Murakami
- Kitchen by: Banana Yoshimoto
- The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction by: Various
- American Gods by: Neil Gaiman
- No Longer Human by: Osamu Dezai
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog by: Yōko Tawada
- Battle Royale: Remastered by: Kōshun Takami
- The Fox/The Captain’s Doll/The Ladybird by: D. H. Lawrence
- Phaedo by: Plato
- Needful Things by: Stephen King
- Out by: Natsuo Kirino
- The Razor’s Edge by: W. Somerset Maugham
- Wind/Pinball by: Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by: Haruki Murakami
- Tongue by: Kyung Ran Jo
2015
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by: Stephen King
- The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by: Stephen King
- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by: Stephen King
- Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by: J. D. Salinger
- Meditations by: Marcus Aurelius
- A Study in Scarlet by: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Over to You by: Roald Dahl
- The Island of Doctor Moreau by: H.G. Wells
- Ubik by: Philip K. Dick
- Crime and Punishment by: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Pyramid by: William Golding
- Changing Places by: David Lodge
- The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by: Stephen King
- While Mortals Sleep by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Coraline by: Neil Gaimon
- Child of God by: Cormac McCarthy
- Millay by: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- House of Leaves by: Mark Z. Danielewski
- A Christmas Carol by: Charles Dickens
- The First Philosophers by: Robin Waterfield
Before 2015
I didn’t keep a list during this time, but from memory some of my favourites were:
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by: Stephen King
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by: Stephen King
- The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by: Stephen King
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
- Dracula by: Bram Stoker
- The Pickwick Papers by: Charles Dickens
- Welcome to the Monkey House by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Winnie-the-Pooh by: A. A. Milne
- The House at Pooh Corner by: A. A. Milne
- Sons and Lovers by: D. H. Lawrence
- Look at the Birdie by: Kurt Vonnegut
- Wuthering Heights by: Emily Brontë
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by: Oscar Wilde
- Hamlet by: Shakespeare
- A Clockwork Orange by: Anthony Burgess
- It by: Stephen King
- I am the Messenger by: Markus Zusak
- The Catcher in the Rye by: J. D. Salinger
- Lord of the Flies by: William Golding
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by: Mark Haddon
- The Darren Shan Saga by: Darren Shan
- The Giver by: Lois Lowry
- The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trilogy by: Alvin Schwartz