A far from exhaustive, perpetually evolving list of the things I'd like to read some day.
- Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth by Herman Hesse
- The Anatomy of Dependence by Takeo Doi
- Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics by Laura Miller
- Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
- Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities by Mark J. McLelland
- Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder
- Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals by Barbara Summerhawk
- The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature by Susan J. Napier
- Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan by Jennifer Ellen Robertson
- East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons by Liza Dalby
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Classic of Tea (Chá jīng) by Lu Yu
- Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World by Sherrie A. Inness
- Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse by John Ingulstrud
- The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris
- Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
- The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus
- Something by Osamu Tezuka. Kinda broad, I know, but still.
- Toward a Recognition of Androgyny by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
- Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology by
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins
