The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataThousand Cranes by Yasunari KawabataSnow Country by Yasunari KawabataThe Old Capital by Yasunari KawabataBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
14 books — 14 voters
Coup de Grâce by Marguerite YourcenarThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio MishimaThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Read Them Twice...At Least
13,861 books — 11,438 voters

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Best Books of the 19th Century
1,704 books — 6,877 voters
Coup de Grâce by Marguerite YourcenarThe Stranger by Albert CamusMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Devil in the Flesh by Raymond RadiguetGerminal by Émile Zola
Best French Literature
873 books — 1,574 voters

Chess Story by Stefan ZweigMemoires van een antisemiet by Gregor von RezzoriThe Complete Stories by Franz KafkaStorm of Steel by Ernst JüngerThe Loser by Thomas Bernhard
Best German/Austrian/Swiss Literature
976 books — 959 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLolita by Vladimir NabokovFathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Best Russian Literature
513 books — 2,281 voters

Spring Snow by Yukio MishimaKokoro by Natsume SōsekiThe Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari KawabataConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaThe Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Best Japanese Books
772 books — 3,249 voters
Spring Snow by Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaDeath in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio MishimaRunaway Horses by Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Best of Yukio Mishima
23 books — 75 voters