Yuki Kajiura’s Bookshelf
Yuki has written a list of her favorite books, and posted it on her website on the +bookshelf+ page. As of August 28, 2007, the page itself is not working, although the link to it is still visible at www.fictionjunction.com. (Update: link removed November 2007. Page still visible from archive.org. They were categorized and listed. Following is a translated version of her list (in Title - Author format):
Short Story Anthologies
- Eva Luna - Isabelle Allende
- Innocent Erendira - García Márquez
- Inspecting the Vaults - Eric McCormack
- Märchen - Herman Hesse
- Arabian Nights
- Tales of the Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov
- Picture Book Without Pictures - Hans Christian Andersen
- Dr Herriot’s Strange Experiences - James Herriot (This one is weird; he doesnt have a book by that title. I am guessing it is what “James Herriot’s Animal Stories” is translated into japanese.)
- Winesburg: Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Novels
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - García Márquez
- 25th Hour - David Benioff
- The Notebook/The Proof/The Third Lie - Agota Kristof
- Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
- Tales of the Black Widowers - Isaac Asimov
Mystery
- The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Tuesday Night Club - Agatha Christie
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
- The Invention of Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Hyperion/The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Vurt - Jeff Noon
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Stone and the Flute - Hans Bemmann
- The Golden Apples of the Sun - Ray Bradbury
Children’s Books
- Picture Book Without Pictures - Hans Christian Andersen
- The Happy Moomins - Tove Jansson
- Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
