Takeshi Kaiko; Kenji Miyazawa (his poems especially); Kenji Nakagami; Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Rashomon); Yasunari Kawabata; Ogai Mori (Takasebune); Soseki Natsume (Kokoro, Kusamakura); Yukio Mishima (Kinkakuji); Taruho Inagaki; Junichiro Tanizaki when pursuing eros; Yutaka Haniya (Shiryo) to savor bit by bit; Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha followed by Happiness and finally Steppenwolf (I recommend the Kenji Takahashi translation) for a satisfying bellyful of great literature;Shohei Ooka (Nobi) ; Shusaku Endo(Umi to Dokuyaku,Chinmoku);Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment); Roald Dahl; Oscar Wilde; Shel Silverstein; Edgar Allan Poe; Elie Wiesel; John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil); F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby); George Orwell (1984)