• Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro
• NEXT -- Michael Crichton
• The Last Lecture -- Randy Pausch
• What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng -- Dave Eggers
• Me Talk Pretty One Day -- David Sedaris
• The Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
• Beneath the Wheel -- Hermann Hesse
• Siddartha -- Hermann Hesse
• A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

Japanese:

• Paprika -- Yasutaka Tsutsui
• Asleep -- Banana Yoshimoto
• Norwegian Wood -- Haruki Murakami
• Silence -- Shusaku Endo
• The Capricious Robot -- Shinichi Hoshi
• The Setting Sun -- Osamu Dazai
• No Longer Human -- Osamu Dazai
• Bocchan -- Soseki Natsume
• A Night on the Galactic Railroad -- Kenji Miyazawa