Recs if you like Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov (Modern Japanese Classics)...

These books are mentioned in the book The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

Every book or author mentioned in Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” in one convenient place

A list to deepen one’s understanding of cross-literary conversation from a 21st century author.

I created this list in the spirit of one of the central themes of the novel, that being that literature is a conversation through space and time. Writing is a kind of time travel, if only just to the future, and reading is one to the past.

Books that influenced or are referenced in RGU or by Ikuhara