Books read – the 2009 edition
- Donna Tartt – The Secret History
- Chris Anderson – The Long Tail
- Aravind Adiga – White Tiger
- Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase
- David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- Haruki Murakami – Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- Haruki Murakami – After Dark
- David Sedaris – Dress Your Family in Curduroy and Demin
- Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
- Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
- David Sedaris – Naked
- Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Haruki Murakami – Dance Dance Dance
- Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
- Haruki Murakami – After the Quake
- Yoko Ogawa – The Housekeeper and the Professor
- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons – Watchmen
- 村上春樹 – 1973年的弹子球 (Chinese; English title: Pinball, 1973)
- Freakonomics – Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
- Hear the Wind Sing – Haruki Murakami
- The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders – Emmanuel Guibert & Didier Lefèvre
- Making the Cat Laugh – Lynne Truss
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – Leonard Mlodinow
- Barrel Fever – David Sedaris
- The Brain that Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Woman in the Dunes – Kobe Abe
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Cold Faint Fear – Karin Slaughter
- Then We Came to an End – Joshua Ferris
- The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey – Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
- One Fifth Avenue – Candace Bushnell (yes, laugh)
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak