Here is a constantly updated list with a few texts that I personally really enjoy and think offer important ideas related to my areas of research. Since there are so many books available to read in this world, I will only list books I found very compelling or books that I think may be uncommonly read (or simply books that I thoroughly enjoy and want to share!). This is not a comprehensive list of all possible books, so if there are any books you have questions on and don't see here, please leave a comment! I will also leave out common, well-known thinkers in the interest of space!
FICTION:
Japanese Literature:
The Setting Sun [斜陽] by Osamu Dazai
No Longer Human [人間失格] by Osamu Dazai
Silence [沈黙] by Shusaku Endo
Deep River [深い河] by Shusaku Endo
Snow Country [雪国] by Yasunari Kawabata
A Personal Matter [個人的な体験] by Kenzaburo Oe
The Silent Cry [万延元年のフットボール] by Kenzaburo Oe
Kokoro [こころ] by Natsume Soseki
Non-Japanese Literature
Embassytown by China Mieville
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
NONFICTION
History and Repetition by Kojin Karatani
The Structure of World History by Kojin Karatani
Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity by Tomi Suzuki
Japan's Total Empire by Louise Young
Critical Theory:
Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity by Tomi Suzuki
Japan's Total Empire by Louise Young
Critical Theory:
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art by Jill Bennett
Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection by Judith Butler
The Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci
Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea ed. by Rosalind C. Norris
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
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