| #2 | | 3.91 | 988 reads | |
| #3 | Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.99 | 863 reads | |
| #4 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 4.05 | 577 reads | |
| #5 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.91 | 354 reads | |
| #6 | The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami
- Ted Goossen (Translator)
| 3.52 | 163 reads | |
| #7 | Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.87 | 137 reads | |
| #8 | Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
- Urszula Knap (Translator)
| 3.99 | 205 reads | |
| #9 | | 3.64 | 95 reads | |
| #10 | After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 3.65 | 318 reads | |
| #11 | Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.83 | 290 reads | |
| #12 | South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.75 | 232 reads | |
| #13 | The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.62 | 58 reads | |
| #14 | | 4.04 | 171 reads | |
| #15 | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.77 | 343 reads | |
| #16 | Kamikaze Girls - Novala Takemoto
- Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
| 4 | 6 reads | |
| #17 | I Am a Cat - Aiko Ito (Translator)
- Natsume Sōseki
- Graeme Wilson (Translator)
| 3.52 | 25 reads | |
| #18 | No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
- Donald Keene (Translator)
| 3.86 | 548 reads | |
| #19 | Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.37 | 62 reads | |
| #20 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
- Ivan Morris (Translator)
| 3.83 | 56 reads | |
| #21 | A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
- John Nathan (Translator)
| 3.86 | 25 reads | |
| #22 | The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 3.95 | 143 reads | |
| #23 | Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.7 | 726 reads | |
| #24 | Anthology of Japanese literature : from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century - Burton Watson (Translator)
- G.W. Sargent (Translator)
- Arthur Waley (Translator)
- Kenneth Rexroth (Translator)
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
- A.L. Sadler (Translator)
- Robert H. Brower (Translator)
- Charles E. Hamilton (Translator)
- George Bailey Sansom (Translator)
- Ryusaku Tsunoda (Translator)
- Sam Houston Brock (Translator)
- Shio Sakanishi (Translator)
- W. Theodore De Bary (Translator)
- Harold Gould Henderson (Translator)
- Howard Hibbett (Translator)
- Thomas Satchell (Translator)
- Marjorie Sinclair (Translator)
- Kochi Doi (Translator)
- Yukuo Uyehara (Translator)
- Anne Shepley Omori (Translator)
- Richard J. Lane (Translator)
- F. Voss (Translator)
- Basil Hall Chamberlain (Translator)
| 3 | 1 read | |
| #25 | Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day | 3 | 1 read | |
| #26 | The Box Man - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.6 | 21 reads | |
| #27 | The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- Markus Juslin (Translator)
| 3.69 | 330 reads | |
| #28 | Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.64 | 154 reads | |
| #29 | An Artist of The Floating World | 3.86 | 71 reads | |
| #30 | Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
- David Boyd (Translator)
- Lucy North (Translator)
| 3.59 | 64 reads | |
| #31 | | 4.2 | 5 reads | |
| #32 | Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.61 | 288 reads | |
| #33 | What You Are Looking for Is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
- Alison Watts (Translator)
| 4.07 | 174 reads | |
| #34 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 3.8 | 134 reads | |
| #35 | Confessions - Kanae Minato
- Andry Setiawan (Translator)
- Clara Canceriana (Translator)
| 3.91 | 176 reads | |
| #36 | | 3.87 | 203 reads | |
| #37 | In the Miso Soup - Ryū Murakami
- Ralph McCarthy (Translator)
| 3.57 | 103 reads | |
| #38 | Battle Royale: Enforcers, Vol. 1 | 0 | 0 reads | |
| #39 | The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 4.35 | 160 reads | |
| #40 | Revenge - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 4 | 42 reads | |
| #41 | Hotel Iris - Yōko Ogawa
- Ornella Civardi (Translator)
| 3.13 | 15 reads | |
| #42 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
| 3.69 | 826 reads | |
