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