#2 | | 4 | 1 read | |
#3 | Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa | 4 | 2 reads | |
#4 | | 4 | 2 reads | |
#5 | | 3.92 | 6 reads | |
#6 | Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan | 3 | 4 reads | |
#7 | | 4 | 1 read | |
#8 | The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan | 3 | 1 read | |
#9 | | 3.71 | 7 reads | |
#10 | The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto | 4 | 7 reads | |
#11 | | 4.5 | 1 read | |
#12 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.85 | 371 reads | |
#13 | Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.37 | 61 reads | |
#14 | Across the Nightingale Floor | 3.77 | 103 reads | |
#15 | The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 3.95 | 138 reads | |
#16 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches | 4.14 | 12 reads | |
#17 |  Eat Sleep Sit Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple | 4 | 1 read | |
#18 | | 3 | 2 reads | |
#19 | Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 4.04 | 64 reads | |
#20 | | 3.5 | 6 reads | |
#21 | | 3.25 | 2 reads | |
#22 | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.77 | 341 reads | |
#23 | | 3.5 | 2 reads | |
#24 | Even Darkness Sings: From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Finding Hope and Optimism in the Saddest Places on Earth | 4 | 1 read | |
#25 | A Tale for the Time Being | 4 | 181 reads | |
#26 | Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Bashō | 3 | 1 read | |
#28 | The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- Markus Juslin (Translator)
| 3.7 | 315 reads | |
#29 | Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living - Hector Garcia Puigcerver
- Francesc Miralles
- Meik Wiking
- Linnea Dunne
| 3.28 | 123 reads | |
#30 | | 3 | 10 reads | |
#31 | The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide
- Eric Selland (Translator)
| 3.54 | 46 reads | |
#32 | The Book of Ichigo Ichie - Hector Garcia Puigcerver
- Francesc Miralles
| 3.78 | 12 reads | |
#33 | Be More Japan: The Art of Japanese Living | 3.25 | 2 reads | |
#34 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
| 3.69 | 825 reads | |
#35 | | 4 | 4 reads | |
#36 | On the Narrow Road to the Deep North | 3 | 1 read | |
#37 | | 3.72 | 42 reads | |
#38 | 100 Poems from the Japanese | 3 | 4 reads | |
#39 | The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Natsuko Imamura
- Lucy North (Translator)
| 3.21 | 32 reads | |
#40 | | 3.75 | 57 reads | |
#42 | | 4 | 1 read | |
#43 | The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere | 3.81 | 23 reads | |