#2 | Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 3.84 | 464 reads | |
#3 | Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.92 | 415 reads | |
#4 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 4.11 | 271 reads | |
#5 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.86 | 165 reads | |
#6 | The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami
- Ted Goossen (Translator)
| 3.47 | 82 reads | |
#7 | Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.93 | 67 reads | |
#8 | Battle Royale, Vol. 9 - Koushun Takami
- Masayuki Taguchi
- Tomo Iwo (Translator)
| 4.01 | 120 reads | |
#9 | Out - Natsuo Kirino
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 3.64 | 52 reads | |
#10 | After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- Jay Rubin (Translator)
| 3.64 | 168 reads | |
#11 | Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.7 | 130 reads | |
#12 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | 3.76 | 107 reads | |
#13 | The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.35 | 32 reads | |
#14 | | 3.98 | 84 reads | |
#15 | Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.78 | 165 reads | |
#16 | Kamikaze Girls - Novala Takemoto
- Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)
| 4 | 5 reads | |
#17 | I Am a Cat - Aiko Ito (Translator)
- Natsume Sōseki
- Graeme Wilson (Translator)
| 3.45 | 13 reads | |
#18 | No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
- Donald Keene (Translator)
| 3.86 | 258 reads | |
#19 | Snow Country & Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.35 | 38 reads | |
#20 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | 3.74 | 36 reads | |
#21 | A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe
- John Nathan (Translator)
| 4 | 13 reads | |
#22 | The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 4.08 | 66 reads | |
#23 | Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.7 | 424 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)
| 3.5 | 11 reads | |
#27 | The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
- Markus Juslin (Translator)
| 3.74 | 152 reads | |
#28 | Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.64 | 79 reads | |
#29 | An Artist of The Floating World | 3.82 | 34 reads | |
#30 | Diary of a Void - Emi Yagi
- David Boyd (Translator)
- Lucy North (Translator)
| 3.64 | 32 reads | |
#31 | The Diving Pool - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 4 | 3 reads | |
#32 | Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.6 | 151 reads | |
#33 | What You Are Looking for Is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
- Alison Watts (Translator)
| 4.09 | 70 reads | |
#34 | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 3.76 | 81 reads | |
#35 | Confessions - Kanae Minato
- Andry Setiawan (Translator)
- Clara Canceriana (Translator)
| 3.9 | 118 reads | |
#36 | Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
- Megan Backus (Translator)
| 3.86 | 111 reads | |
#37 | In the Miso Soup - Ryū Murakami
- Ralph McCarthy (Translator)
| 3.62 | 50 reads | |
#38 | Battle Royale: Enforcers, Vol. 1 | 0 | 0 reads | |
#39 | The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 4.37 | 96 reads | |
#40 | Revenge Revenge - Yōko Ogawa
- Stephen Snyder (Translator)
| 4.07 | 28 reads | |
#41 | | 2.83 | 8 reads | |
#42 | Before the Coffee Gets Cold | 3.73 | 433 reads | |