- Women in the language and society of Japan – Naoko Takemaru
- Black rain – Masuji Ibuse
- Origins of Japanese wealth and power – John H. Sagers
- Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Kokoro: Hints and echoes of Japanese inner life – Lafcadio Hearn
- Dogs for dummies – Gina Spadafori
- The hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo
- The mist – Stephen King
- N.P. – Banana Yoshimoto
- 47 ronin – Susumu Katagawa
- A clockwork orange – Anthony Burgess
- The woman in the dunes – Kobo Abe
- The method of zen – Eugen Herrigel
- Four kids, three cats, two cows, one witch (maybe) – Siobhan Parkinson
- de-Coding Da Vinci – Amy Welborn
- 501 must-visit destinations – David Brown
- The fault in our stars – John Green
- The metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- Horai – Lafcadio Hearn
- Pride and prejudice – Jane Austen
- Edward Albee’s Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf – Michael Adams
- Dragons and dragon lore – Ernest Ingersoll
- The order of the universe – George Ohsawa
- Ideals of the east – Okakura Kakuzo