- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Why I Hate Canadians by Will Ferguson
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
- The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg
- Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Book of Ikebana by Kawase Toshirou
- Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan by Alex Kerr (unfinished)
- A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Things Not Seen by Andrew Clement
still waiting:
- Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan by Alan Booth
- Vintage Murakami (collection of works) by Haruki Murakami
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (updated and expanded version)
- Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
constant companions:
- Lonely Planet Guide to Japan
- Lonely Planet City Guide to Kyoto
- Japanese for Busy People (Kana Version) by the Association for Japanese Language Teachers
- How to Tell the Difference Between Japanese Particles: Comparisons and Exercises by Naoko Chino
- Japanese Verbs and Essentials of Grammar, 2nd ed. by Rita L. Lampkin
- Basic Kanji Book, vol. 1
- Minna no Nihongo I
- How to Teach English by Jeremy Harmer
- TESL Certification Course: Training Manual prepared by Oxford Seminars
- Handbook for Team-Teaching, rev. ed. prepared by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Resource Materials and Teaching Handbook prepared by the Japan Council of Local Authorities for International Relations
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