#2 | The World of the Shining Prince | 0 | 0 reads | |
#3 | The chrysanthemum and the sword | 2.7 | 8 reads | |
#4 | Ink Dark Moon - Ono No Komachi
- Izumi Shikibu
- Jane Hirshfield
| 4.17 | 7 reads | |
#5 | 100 Poems from the Japanese | 3 | 4 reads | |
#6 | | 3.5 | 6 reads | |
#7 | | 4 | 6 reads | |
#8 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches | 4.14 | 12 reads | |
#9 | The Garden of Evening Mists | 3.9 | 16 reads | |
#10 | Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
- Edwin McClellan (Translator)
| 4.16 | 81 reads | |
#11 | | 3.95 | 766 reads | |
#12 | | 3.17 | 16 reads | |
#13 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 3.8 | 133 reads | |
#14 | | 4 | 8 reads | |
#15 | | 4.41 | 24 reads | |
#16 | | 3.57 | 36 reads | |
#17 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
- Ivan Morris (Translator)
| 3.83 | 56 reads | |
#18 | Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
- Meredith Weatherby (Translator)
| 4.04 | 85 reads | |
#19 | Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
- Michael Gallagher (Translator)
| 4.1 | 56 reads | |
#20 | Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.95 | 16 reads | |
#21 | The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.38 | 12 reads | |
#22 | Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata
- Howard Hibbett (translator)
| 3.73 | 20 reads | |
#23 | No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
- Donald Keene (Translator)
| 3.85 | 545 reads | |
#24 | Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance - Osamu Dazai
- Ralph F. McCarthy (Translator)
| 4.33 | 5 reads | |
#25 | Taiko - Eiji Yoshikawa
- William Scott Wilson (Translator)
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
#26 |  The Life-Giving Sword The Life-Giving Sword: The Secret Teachings From the House of the Shogun - Yagyu Munenori
- William Scott Wilson (Translator)
| 3 | 1 read | |
#27 | Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
- Charles S. Terry (Translator)
| 4.48 | 61 reads | |
#28 | Almost Transparent Blue - Ryū Murakami
- Nancy Andrew (Translator)
| 2.88 | 14 reads | |
#29 | Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.99 | 862 reads | |
#30 | South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.74 | 231 reads | |
#31 | The Makioka Sisters - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.75 | 17 reads | |
#32 | | 3.86 | 49 reads | |
#33 | The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.62 | 58 reads | |
#34 | | 3.91 | 982 reads | |
#35 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.91 | 354 reads | |
#36 | Tales of Moonlight and Rain - Ueda Akinari
- Anthony H. Chambers (Translator)
| 3.33 | 4 reads | |
#37 | The Lake - Yasunari Kawabata
- Reiko Tsukimura (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#38 | Sanshirō - Natsume Sōseki
- Đỗ Hương Giang (Translator)
| 3.56 | 11 reads | |
#39 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 4.05 | 576 reads | |
#40 | The Three-Cornered World - Natsume Sōseki
- Meredith McKinney (Translator)
| 2 | 2 reads | |
#41 | Bushido: The Spirit of the Samurai | 0 | 0 reads | |
#42 | | 4 | 2 reads | |
#43 | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.77 | 341 reads | |
#44 | The Waiting Years - Fumiko Enchi
- John Bester (Translator)
| 4.67 | 3 reads | |
#45 | After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 3.65 | 318 reads | |
#46 | A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.76 | 286 reads | |