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
48th out of 517 books — 358 voters
Battle Royale by Koushun TakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Books That Are Not Manga
52nd out of 256 books — 189 voters

Call of the Kami by Teresa GarciaThe Kojiki by Ō no YasumaroA Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K. NelsonTaming the Blowing Wind by Teresa GarciaKami no Michi - The way of the Kami by Yukitaka Yamamoto
Books on or containing Shinto
2nd out of 67 books — 32 voters
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by BedeThe Selected Poems of Li Po by Li PoLi Po and Tu Fu by Li PoPoems by Wang WeiSpring in the Ruined City by Du Fu
Best Books of the 8th Century
12th out of 20 books — 53 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
338th out of 773 books — 3,249 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
98th out of 153 books — 78 voters

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanThe Last Olympian by Rick RiordanThe Odyssey by HomerThe Sea of Monsters by Rick RiordanThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Best Books About Mythology
816th out of 1,394 books — 2,219 voters
The Arabian Nights by AnonymousThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle by Anglo-Saxon ChronicleThe Life of Charlemagne by EinhardAlfred the Great by AsserHistory of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius
Best Books of the 9th Century
18th out of 18 books — 96 voters

Edipo Rey by SophoclesThe Minority Report by Philip K. DickEl hombre de arena by E.T.A. HoffmannLos crimenes de la calle Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeConfesiones de San Agustín by Augustine of Hippo
Reporte Minoritario
49th out of 100 books — 2 voters
The Torah by AnonymousThe Jewish Study Bible by Adele BerlinThe Essential Talmud by Adin Even-Israel SteinsaltzThe Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. MattThe Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
Knowing about religion
49th out of 100 books — 1 voter