| #2 | The Woman in the Dunes - Kōbō Abe
- E. Dale Saunders (Translator)
| 3.54 |
| #3 | Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.72 |
| #4 | Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa
- Alison Watts (Translator)
| 4.26 |
| #5 | The Lake - Banana Yoshimoto
- Michael Emmerich (Translator)
| 3.67 |
| #6 | Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
- Megan Backus (Translator)
| 3.89 |
| #7 | Snow Country & Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.38 |
| #8 | Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
| 3.81 |
| #9 | Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
- Edwin McClellan (Translator)
| 4.19 |
| #10 | Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.88 |
| #11 | Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
- Phillip Gabriel (Translator)
| 4.36 |
| #12 | Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Philip Gabriel (Translator)
| 3.95 |
| #13 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | 4.11 |
| #14 | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- Alfred Birnbaum (Translator)
| 3.86 |
| #15 | | 3.95 |
| #16 | The Cat Who Saved Books - Sōsuke Natsukawa
- Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
| 3.76 |
| #17 | Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
- Allison Markin Powell (Translator)
| 3.47 |
| #18 | | 4 |
| #19 | The Life of a Stupid Man - Jay Rubin (Translator)
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
| 4.19 |
| #20 | Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories | 3.93 |
| #21 | Territory of Light - Yūko Tsushima
- Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)
| 3.64 |
| #22 | Woman Running in the Mountains - Yūko Tsushima
- Geraldine Harcourt (Translator)
| 5 |
| #23 | Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
- Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
| 3.68 |
| #24 | Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
- Sam Bett (Translator)
- David Boyd (Translator)
| 3.68 |
