Books Read – 2018

These were books read in 2018, listed in the order they were read.

1. Shame in the Blood by Tetsuo Miura, translated by Andrew Driver [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
2. Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy by Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph F McCarthy [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
3. Parade by Shuichi Yoshida, translated by Philip Gabriel [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
4. Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura, translated by Mark Ealey [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
5. Wind and Stone by Akira Masaaki Tachihara, translated by Stephen W Kohl [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
6. Pandora’s Box by Osamu Dazai, translated by Shelley Marshall [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
7. The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi, translated by John Bester [star rating=”90″ type=”percent”]
8. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
9. Inside My Glass Doors by Natsume Sōseki, translated by Ikuo Tsunematsu and Sammy Tsunematsu [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
10. Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, translated by Geoffrey Bownas [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
11. One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura, translated by Mark Ealey [star rating=”50″ type=”percent”]
12. Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence: After the Long Goodbye by Masaki Yamada, translated by Yuji Oniki with Carl Gustav Horn  [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
13.  Homecoming by Jirō Osaragi, translated by Brewster Horwitz [star rating=”60″ type=”percent”]
14. Shinjuku Shark by Arimasa Osawa, translated by Andrew Clare [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
15. A View by the Sea by Yasuoka Shotaro, translated by Kären E Wigen [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
16. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, translated by John Nathan [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
17. The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
18. No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
19. The Box Man by Kōbō Abe, translated by E Dale Saunders [star rating=”50″ type=”percent”]
20. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe, translated by John Nathan [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
21. Indian Summer by Mieko Kanai, translated by Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
22. Aphrodite by Masaki Yamada, translated by Daniel Jackson [star rating=”60″ type=”percent”]
23. The Inugami Clan by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Yumiko Yamazaki [star rating=”90″ type=”percent”]
24. Twenty-Four Eyes by Sakae Tsuboi, translated by Akira Miura [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
25. Okei: A Girl from the Provinces by Mitsugu Saotome, translated by Kenneth J Bryson [star rating=”20″ type=”percent”]
26. Betty-San by Michiko Yamamoto, translated by Geraldine Harcourt [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
27. Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima, translated by Alfred H Marks [star rating=”60″ type=”percent”]
28. Child of Fortune by Yūko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt [star rating=”60″ type=”percent”]
29. The Flower Mat by Shūgorō Yamamoto, translated by Mihoko Inoue and Eileen B Hennessy [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
30. Still Life and Other Stories by Junzo Shono, translated by Wayne P Lammers [star rating=”60″ type=”percent”]
31. A Life of Jesus by Shūsaku Endō, translated by Richard Schuchert [star rating=”20″ type=”percent”]
32. Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda [star rating=”90″ type=”percent”]
33. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, translated by Meredith Weatherby [star rating=”80″ type=”percent”]
34. God’s Boat by Kaori Ekuni, translated by Chikako Kobayashi [star rating=”90″ type=”percent”]
35. A Woman Called En by Tomie Ōhara, translated by Kazuko Furuhata and Janet Smith [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
36. The Fiend with Twenty Faces by Rampo Edogawa, translated by Dan Luffey [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]
37. The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows by Rampo Edogawa, translated by Ian Hughes [star rating=”70″ type=”percent”]