Complete Reading List
Educational Novels/Biographies:
How to Think Like an Anthropologist - Matthew Engelke
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature - Agustín Fuentes
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
A Fortunate Life - Albert B Facey
Educated - Tara Westover
Survival in the Killin Fields - Haing Ngor
Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in Nazi Germany - Marie Jalowicz Simon
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall - Anna Funder
Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory - Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Mao’s Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
A Midsummer Nights’ Dream - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
Japanese Novels:
The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
How to Live Japanese - Yutaka Yazawa
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
100 Poems from the Japanese - Kenneth Rexroth
The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
Kodomo No Tame-Ni - Dennis M. Ogawa
Japan: The Paradox of Harmony - Keiko Hirata
The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai - Katai Tayama
A Kinosaki - Naoya Shiga
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
1000 Poems from the Manyōshū - Compilation by ōtomo no Yakamochi
Jan Ken Po - Dennis M. Ogawa
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets - Compilation by Yoel Hoffmann
The Temple of The Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organising - Marie Kondo
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life - Marie Kondo
The Courage to Be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power - Ichiro Kishimi
Hawaiian Educational novels:
Native Hawaiian Law: A Treatise - Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie
The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917 - Helena G. Allen
Hawaii’s Story By Hawaii’s Queen - Queen Liliuokalani
The Great Mahele - Jon J. Chinen
Ancient Oahu: Stories from Fornander & Thrum - Dennis Kawaharada
Psychological Novels:
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t - Malcolm Gladwell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
Gaslighting: How to recognise manipulative and emotionally abusive behaviour - Stephanie Sarkis
Games People Play - Eric Berne
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Boundary Boss - Terri Cole
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self Mastery - Brianna West
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
Atomic Habits -
How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love Difficult People - June Eding
Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life - Mashall B. Rosenburg
What Happened to You? - Bruce D. Perry
The Five Things We Cannot Change - David Richo
The Five Keys to Mindful Communication - Susan Gillis Chapman
Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Non-Violent Communication - Oren Jay Sofer
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - Mark Wolynn
Other reads!
Normal People - Sally Rooney
The Wife - Alafair Burke
The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
1894 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Between a Wolf and a Dog - Georgia Blain
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Poetry of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronté
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
The Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave