Travel the world this summer with our Adult Summer Reading Program, Novel Destinations.
JAPAN:
FICTION
The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland
Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
Country of Origin by Don Lee
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
Girl in a Box by Sujata Massey
The Masuda Affair: A Sugawara Akitada Mystery by I.J. Parker
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
The Tales of the Heike translated by Burton Watson
The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Volcano by Shusaku Edno
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Villain by Shuichi Yoshida
NON-FICTION
Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan by W.G. Beasley
Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals by Tadashi Ono & Harris Salat
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
Samurai: The Story of Japan’s Great Warriors by Stephen Turnbull
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
Writings from Japan: An Anthology by Lafcadio Hearn
FILMS