booklist

In no particular order.

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, Andrew Harvey
• The Unexpurgated Diaries of Anais Nin by Anaïs Nin
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• In Praise of Shadows and The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
• Kitchen, Amrita and Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
• The Sound of Waves and Spring Snow (1e part of the tetralogy 'Sea of Furtility', which are all great) by Yukio Mishima
• Norwegian wood, Hardboiled Wonderland, and Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong