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10 best books like John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Richard V. Reeves): Snow Country, Runaway Horses, The Decay of the Angel, The Temple of Dawn, Seven Japanese Tales, A History of Western Philosophy, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, Japan: Its History and Culture

Snow Country
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
ISBN0679761047
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...
Runaway Horses
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN0099282895
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor’s rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and...
The Decay of the Angel
AuthorYukio Mishima
This is the fourth and final volume in Mishima’s tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility.

Class divisions and changing values in Japan due to western influence are major themes. Another theme all the way through the series is reincarnation. In Decay of the Angel, the reincarnated spirit is an orphan....
The Temple of Dawn
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN0099282798
Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
 
Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda,...
Seven Japanese Tales
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN0679761071
I purchased this book in a bookstore off Piccadilly Circus waiting to meet someone. After hours of conversation, we separated, taking our respective tunnels to catch our trains. Every time I see this book, I remember that goodbye. Funny, the things that serve as fluttering markers to our memories.

I'm...
A History of Western Philosophy
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0671201581
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
AuthorRoger Crowley
ISBN0812994000
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then...
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
AuthorRobert D. Richardson Jr.
ISBN0618433252
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion -- on modernism itself

Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling...
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
AuthorMaya Jasanoff
ISBN1400041686
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
Japan: Its History and Culture
AuthorW. Scott Morton
ISBN0071412808
This is a revision of the long successful, short, illustrated cultural history of Japan, from its beginnings about 3000 BC to the present day, first published in 1970 and continuously in use over several editions in colleges and universities nationwide. It is designed as a straightforward, detail-rich...
A History of Popular Culture in Japan: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
AuthorE Taylor Atkins
ISBN1474258549
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it...
The Culture of the Meiji Period
AuthorDaikichi Irokawa
ISBN0691000301
This book offered a very different, almost counter cultural portrayal of the Meiji Restoration period of Japan. It did not focus on its aready well known 'heroes:' the former samurai, intellectuals, and other elite figures who led the country in its determined efforts to gain acceptance by the Western...
Japanese Imperialism 1894-1945
AuthorW.G. Beasley
ISBN0198221681
As I said in one of my comments, this is not an easy book -- it is academic and overly detailed, with lots of minutiae devoted to negotiations and treaties that were unsuccessful (without issue) or of transitory interest. That said, even these details are often instructive and one can skim some pages....
The Edo inheritance
AuthorTokugawa Tsunenari
Since a kid I have been very fond of samurai stories and Japanesse culture. The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Gheisa are two of my favorite films. So this book was very special for me being written by the descendant of the famous shogunate of Ieyasu.
The book is not a scholar historical study of the period,...
In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka
AuthorKyōka Izumi
ISBN0824828941
In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taish� writer Izumi Ky�ka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story Mayu kakushi no rei (A quiet obsession), and Ky�ka's hauntingly erotic final...
Supermarket
AuthorSatoshi Azuchi
ISBN0312382944
A modern classic of literature in Japan, Supermarket is a novel of the human drama surrounding the management of a supermarket chain at a time when the phenomenon of the supermarket, imported postwar from the US, was just taking hold in Japan. 
 
When Kojima, an elite banker resigns...
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori
AuthorMark J. Ravina
ISBN0471705373
The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a major Hollywood film, "The Last Samurai," starring...
I Am a Cat: I
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0804816212
See alternate cover edition here.

I am a cat. As yet I have no name.

So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Japanese literature.

Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends...
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