books that hit home:

• South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki & His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
• The Goddess Chronicle - Natsuo Kirino
• Evil and the Mask - Fuminori Nakamura
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
• Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
• Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
• A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
• Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets - J.K Rowling
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
• The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

to read:

• The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
• Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Veronica Decides to Die - Paulo Coehlo
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
• Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino
• For This Sadness Not To Have A Sad Ending - Ogawa Ito
• The Seventh Day - Yu Hua