Educated by Tara WestoverNot That Bad by Roxane GaySo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoBecoming by Michelle ObamaThis Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
2018 Non-male Non-Fiction
304 books — 146 voters
Cinema Anime by Steven T. BrownThe Japanophile's Handbook by Alexei Maxim RussellOtaku Spaces by Patrick W. GalbraithOtaku by Hiroki AzumaAnime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle by Susan J. Napier
Japanese Pop Culture.
119 books — 16 voters

InuYasha, Vol. 1 by Rumiko TakahashiRurouni Kenshin, Volume 01 by Nobuhiro WatsukiNightmare Inspector by Shin MashibaHikaru no Go, Vol. 1 by Yumi HottaGin Tama, Vol. 1 by Hideaki Sorachi
Japanese History Through Manga
16 books — 19 voters
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru TanigawaSpice & Wolf, Vol. 01 by Isuna HasekuraWelcome to the N.H.K. by Tatsuhiko Takimotoソードアート・オンライン 1 by Reki KawaharaKino no Tabi by Keiichi Sigsawa
Ranobes - Japanese Light Novels
199 books — 171 voters

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiOut by Natsuo KirinoBattle Royale by Koushun TakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
An Unusual Japanese Book List
219 books — 178 voters