#2 | Out - Natsuo Kirino
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 3.68 | 66 reads | |
#3 | Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate
- Kalau Almony (Translator)
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
#4 | Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
- Phillip Gabriel (Translator)
| 4.38 | 67 reads | |
#5 | Terminal Boredom: Stories - Izumi Suzuki
- Polly Barton (Translator)
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
- Daniel Joseph (Translator)
- Aiko Masubuchi (Translator)
- Helen O'Horan (Translator)
| 3.93 | 17 reads | |
#6 | Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edogawa Rampo
- James B. Harris (Translator)
| 3.59 | 13 reads | |
#7 | Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
- Edwin McClellan (Translator)
| 4.21 | 50 reads | |
#8 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 3.8 | 101 reads | |
#9 | Snow Country & Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.38 | 43 reads | |
#10 | Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories - Taeko Kōno
- Lucy North (Translator)
- Lucy Lower (Translator)
| 4.5 | 3 reads | |
#11 | Night on the Galactic Railroad & Other Stories from Ihatov - Kenji Miyazawa
- Julianne Neville (Translator)
| 4.38 | 4 reads | |
#12 | | 2.96 | 15 reads | |
#13 | The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.23 | 24 reads | |
#14 | There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job | 3.51 | 43 reads | |
#15 | Where the Wild Ladies Are - Aoko Matsuda
- Asri Pratiwi Wulandari (Translator)
| 3.83 | 19 reads | |
#16 | Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
- Megan Backus (Translator)
| 3.87 | 140 reads | |
#17 | | 3.61 | 27 reads | |
#18 | | 3.94 | 105 reads | |
#19 | | 4.18 | 18 reads | |
#20 | If Cats Disappeared from the World | 3.63 | 85 reads | |
#21 | In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
- Thomas J. Harper (Translator)
| 3.46 | 42 reads | |
#22 | People From My Neighbourhood - Hiromi Kawakami
- Ted Goossen (Translator)
| 3.5 | 8 reads | |
#23 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#24 | No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
- Donald Keene (Translator)
| 3.88 | 328 reads | |
#25 | Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.91 | 93 reads | |
#26 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
| 3.74 | 537 reads | |
#27 | My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1 - Kabi Nagata
- Jocelyne Allen (Translator)
| 3.83 | 14 reads | |
#28 | | 4 | 1 read | |
#29 | My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness: Special Edition | 4.02 | 76 reads | |
#30 | | 4.17 | 6 reads | |
#31 | | 2 | 1 read | |
#32 | Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.94 | 574 reads | |
#33 | Territory of Light - Yūko Tsushima
- Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)
| 3.62 | 23 reads | |
#34 | Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.68 | 110 reads | |
#35 | The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Natsuko Imamura
- Lucy North (Translator)
| 3.38 | 21 reads | |
#36 | Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - Kyōko Nakajima
- Ginny Takemori (Translator)
- Ian MacDonald (Translator)
| 4 | 2 reads | |
#37 | Black Box - Shiori Itō
- Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
| 4.67 | 3 reads | |
#38 | The Lake - Banana Yoshimoto
- Michael Emmerich (Translator)
| 3.67 | 8 reads | |
#39 | Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.69 | 203 reads | |
#40 | | 4.5 | 2 reads | |
#41 | The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 | 4.29 | 49 reads | |
#42 | Muistipoliisi - Yōko Ogawa
- Markus Juslin (Translator)
| 3 | 1 read | |
#43 | The Last Children of Tokyo - Yōko Tawada
- Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
| 3.14 | 10 reads | |
#44 | Touring the Land of the Dead - Maki Kashimada
- Haydn Trowell (Translator)
| 0 | 1 read | |
#45 | The Memoirs of a Polar Bear | 3 | 2 reads | |
#46 | Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference | 3 | 1 read | |
#47 | Rethinking Japanese Feminisms | 0 | 0 reads | |
#48 | | 3.38 | 4 reads | |
#49 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#50 | Friendship For Grown-Ups - Nao-Cola Yamazaki
- Polly Barton (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#51 | Mikumari - Misumi Kubo
- 窪 美澄
- Polly Barton (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#52 | At the Edge of the Wood - Masatsugu Ono
- Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#53 | The Girl Who Is Getting Married | 0 | 0 reads | |
#54 | All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.67 | 4 reads | |
#55 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#56 | PARADE - Shūichi Yoshida
- Gérard Siary (Translator)
- Mieko Nakajima-Siary (Translator)
| 4 | 2 reads | |
#57 | | 3.83 | 24 reads | |
#58 | Real World - Philip Gabriel (Translator)
- Natsuo Kirino
| 3.07 | 17 reads | |
#59 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#60 | From the Fatherland, with Love - Ryū Murakami
- Ralph McCarthy (Translator)
- Charles De Wolf (Translator)
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#61 | | 4 | 4 reads | |
#62 | | 3.82 | 45 reads | |
#63 | The Makioka Sisters - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.5 | 11 reads | |
#64 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#65 | | 0 | 0 reads | |
#66 | | 3.82 | 50 reads | |
#67 | The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
- Ho-Ling Wong (Translator)
| 3.69 | 55 reads | |
#68 | | 4.25 | 10 reads | |
#69 | I Am a Cat - Aiko Ito (Translator)
- Natsume Sōseki
- Graeme Wilson (Translator)
| 3.41 | 19 reads | |
#70 | An I-Novel - Minae Mizumura
- Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#71 | | 0 | 1 read | |
#72 | The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino - Hiromi Kawakami
- Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
| 3.09 | 13 reads | |
#73 | The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi
- Mildred Tahara (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#74 | | 3.33 | 3 reads | |
#75 | | 0 | 2 reads | |
#76 | The Box Man - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.5 | 11 reads | |
#77 | | 3.33 | 8 reads | |
#78 | Fires on the Plain - Shōhei Ōoka
- Ivan Morris (Translator)
| 4.5 | 3 reads | |
#79 | Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse
- John Bester (Translator)
| 4 | 5 reads | |
#80 | Masks - Fumiko Enchi
- Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
| 4 | 5 reads | |
#81 | Silence - Shūsaku Endō
- William Johnston (Translator)
| 3.79 | 40 reads | |
#82 | Some Prefer Nettles - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
- Yrjö Kivimies (Translator)
| 3.33 | 5 reads | |
#83 | | 5 | 1 read | |
#84 | | 4 | 2 reads | |
#85 | Kamikaze Girls - Novala Takemoto
- Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
| 4 | 5 reads | |
#86 | | 4.5 | 4 reads | |
#87 | Autofiction Autofiction - Hitomi Kanehara
- David James Karashima (Translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#88 | The Easy Life in Kamusari - Shion Miura
- Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)
| 3.83 | 15 reads | |
#89 | | 3 | 1 read | |
#90 | | 3.81 | 38 reads | |
#91 | Scattered All Over the Earth - Yōko Tawada
- Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
| 3.44 | 13 reads | |
#92 | Woman Running in the Mountains - Yūko Tsushima
- Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)
| 5 | 2 reads | |
#93 | Evil and the Mask - Fuminori Nakamura
- Satoko Izumo (Translator)
- Stephen Coates (Translator)
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
#94 | | 3 | 1 read | |
#95 | | 4 | 10 reads | |
#96 | All the Lovers in the Night - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.63 | 56 reads | |
#97 | Before Your Memory Fades - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
| 3.87 | 57 reads | |
#98 | Matkakissan muistelmat - Hiro Arikawa
- Raisa Porrasmaa (Translator)
| 4 | 1 read | |
#99 | Solo Dance - Kotomi Li
- Arthur Reiji Morris (Translator)
| 3 | 2 reads | |
#100 | Namiyan puodin ihmeet - Keigo Higashino
- Raisa Porrasmaa (translator)
| 0 | 0 reads | |
#101 | Tyhjyyspäiväkirja - Emi Yagi
- Raisa Porrasmaa (Translator)
| 4 | 1 read | |