2026 Reading Challenge

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by John (6 Lists)



Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiTokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Best Books About Japan
516 books — 357 voters
Rainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanShōgun by James ClavellTokyo Vice by Jake AdelsteinThe Shackles Of A Name by Martin Adil-SmithYakuza Moon by Shōko Tendō
Good books about Japan
153 books — 78 voters

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataRashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese Literature
310 books — 387 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo
Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About
14,478 books — 14,733 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerSiddhartha by Hermann HesseSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
books for your existential crisis
164 books — 100 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,251 voters