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