books for the reading diary - 2018

As we enter the last months of 2017 it's time to look forward to some books due for 2018, obviously big news that a newly translated novel from Mishima will garner a lot of attention, rumours are abound that there maybe another from him appearing later in the year too. Another I'm much looking forward to reading is Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro due in March, a book that was/is massive in Japan. Looking at the list for 2017 it looks like it needs a few updates and no doubt, hopefully as we go on this one too will see more additions.



January

The Bear and the Paving Stone - Toshiyuki Horie trans. Geraint Howells - Pushkin Press
In Black and White : A Novel - Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki - trans. Phyllis I. Lyons - CUP
Heaven's Wind - Edited by Angus Turvill - Japan Society

February

Of Dogs and Walls - Yuko Tsushima - Penguin Books
Three Japanese Short Stories - Uno/Nagai/Akutagawa - Penguin Classics
The Red and White Ghost:Selected Essays and Stories - Kita Morio trans. Masako Inamoto - CEAS
Seventeen - Hideo Yokoyama - trans. Louise Heal Kawai - Quercus

March

The End of the Moment We Had - Toshiki Okada trans. Samuel Malissa - Pushkin Press
The Beast Player - Nahoko Uehashi trans. Cathy Hirano - Pushkin Press
Hideyoshi and Rikyu - Nogami Yaeko - trans. Mariko Nishi LaFleur - UHP
Go - Kazuki Kaneshiro trans. Takami Nieda - Amazon Crossing
Five Faces of Japanese Feminism - Ineko Sata trans. Samuel Perry - Hawaii Uni Press

April

Territory of Light - Yuko Tsushima trans. Geraldine Harcourt - Penguin Classics
Sisyphean - Dempow Torishima trans. Daniel Huddleston - Haikasoru
Lion Cross Point - Masatsugu Ono - trans. Angus Turnvill - catranslation

May

Cult X - Fuminori Nakamura trans. Kalau Almony - Soho Press
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each - trans. Peter MacMillan - Penguin Classics
Slum Wolf - Tadao Tsuge - trans. Ryan Holmberg - nyrb
Hybrid Child - Mariko Ohara - trans. Jodie Beck - Minnesota University Press

June

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa trans? - Harvill Secker
The Thousand Year Beach - Tobi Hirotaka trans. Matt Treyvaud - Haikasoru
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - edited/trans. Jay Rubin - Penguin Classics
The Last Children of Tokyo - Yoko Tawada - trans. Margaret Mitsutani - Portobello Books

July

Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima trans.? - Vintage International
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata -trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori - Portobello Books
Another Kyoto - Alex Kerr Kathy Arlyn Sokol - Penguin Books

August

Citizens of Tokyo - Oriza Hirata - edited by M. Cody Poulton - Seagull Books

September

Newcomer - Keigo Higashino trans. Alexander O. Smith - Minotaur Books
The Samurai - Shusaku Endo trans. Van C. Gessel - W.W Norton & Co
Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami. trans. Philip Gabriel/Ted Goossen - Harvill Secker/Knopf
If Cats Disappeared From the World - Genki Kawamura trans. Eric Selland - Picador

October

The Little House - Kyoko Nakajima - trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori - Darf Publishers
On Haiku - Hiroaki Sato - New Directions Publishing

November

Farewell, My Orange - Iwaki Kei - trans. Meredith McKinney - Europa Editions
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories - Taeko Kono trans. Lucy North - reissue - ndp