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antigonewinchesterInspired by the memes I've seen floating around on tumblr and dreamwidth, I compiled a list of 50 memorable books (or some series) that have stuck with me over the years. It's includes fiction, non-fiction, and comics/manga.
The full list is under the cut. It includes title, author, artist, and translator (when I could find one; it's not as easy as you'd think!).
5 Centimeters per Second (Collector's Edition), written by Makoto Shinkai, art by Yukiko Seike
Akane-Banashi, written by Yui Suenaga, drawn by Takamasa Moue, translated from Japanese by Stephen Paul
Bambi, Felix Salten, translated from German by Damion Searls
Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror, Christopher Buehlman
Black Jack, writing & art by Osamu Tezuka, translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh
Blue Flag, writing & art by Kaito
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs
The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman
Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated from Japanese by Amanda Haley
A Change Meeting: American Encounters, Rachel Cohen
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
Conviction, Kelly Loy Gilbert
Dr. Franklin’s Island, Ann Halam
Fear, Gabriel Chevalier, translated from French by Malcolm Imrie
Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate
History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell
How to Live: or, a Life of Montaigne, in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell
How to Think, Alan Jacobs
In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes
Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma, translated from Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams
Kasane, Matsuura Daruma
Kindred, Octavia Butler
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
The Long Walk, Stephen King
Lord of the Files, William Golding
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Self and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist
Milkman, Anna Burns
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Oceans of Cruelty: Twenty-Five Tales of a Corpse Spirit, A Retelling, written & translated by Patrick Penick
Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga
Opus, Satoshi Kon, translated by Zack Davisson
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, translated from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
Shadow of the Torturer & Claw of Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr
The Singularity, Dino Buzzati, translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel
The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Starving Anonymous, Yuu Kuraishi
Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Summer Hikaru Died, Ren Mokumoku, translated by Ajani Oloye
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo
Witch Hat Atelier, Kamome Shirahama
The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone
The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford
The full list is under the cut. It includes title, author, artist, and translator (when I could find one; it's not as easy as you'd think!).
5 Centimeters per Second (Collector's Edition), written by Makoto Shinkai, art by Yukiko Seike
Akane-Banashi, written by Yui Suenaga, drawn by Takamasa Moue, translated from Japanese by Stephen Paul
Bambi, Felix Salten, translated from German by Damion Searls
Between Two Fires: An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror, Christopher Buehlman
Black Jack, writing & art by Osamu Tezuka, translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh
Blue Flag, writing & art by Kaito
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, Alan Jacobs
The Breath of the Sun, Isaac R. Fellman
Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, translated from Japanese by Amanda Haley
A Change Meeting: American Encounters, Rachel Cohen
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
Conviction, Kelly Loy Gilbert
Dr. Franklin’s Island, Ann Halam
Fear, Gabriel Chevalier, translated from French by Malcolm Imrie
Haikyu!!, Haruichi Furudate
History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell
How to Live: or, a Life of Montaigne, in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell
How to Think, Alan Jacobs
In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes
Kapo, Aleksandar Tišma, translated from Serbo-Croatian by Richard Williams
Kasane, Matsuura Daruma
Kindred, Octavia Butler
The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
The Long Walk, Stephen King
Lord of the Files, William Golding
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Self and the Making of the Western World, Iain McGilchrist
Milkman, Anna Burns
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Oceans of Cruelty: Twenty-Five Tales of a Corpse Spirit, A Retelling, written & translated by Patrick Penick
Ôoku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga
Opus, Satoshi Kon, translated by Zack Davisson
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, translated from Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
Shadow of the Torturer & Claw of Conciliator, Gene Wolfe
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr
The Singularity, Dino Buzzati, translated from Italian by Anne Milano Appel
The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Starving Anonymous, Yuu Kuraishi
Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Summer Hikaru Died, Ren Mokumoku, translated by Ajani Oloye
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
Through the Woods, Emily Carroll
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo
Witch Hat Atelier, Kamome Shirahama
The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone
The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford
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