This "100 Favorite Books" list grows fitfully, in keeping with my reading habits. No pretensions of being the "best" of anything, just books that I have read, and there was a time when these volumes meant a lot to me and they and their friends can still be found on my book shelves dreaming, waiting perhaps, to catch someone else's eye.

1.  Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami          
2.  South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
3.  Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
4.  Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world - Haruki Murakami
5.  Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami
6.  The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
7.  After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
8.  A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
9.  The Wind-up Bird Cronicle - Haruki Murakami
10. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
11. Underground - Haruki Murakami
12. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
13. Slow Boat to China - Haruki Murakami
14. Vintage Murakami - Haruki Murakami
15. Birthday Stories - Haruki Murakami
16. Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter - Annegret Hoberg
17. The Unbearable Lightless of Being - Milan Kundera
18. Don Quijote - Miguel de Cervantes
19. Journals of Kurt Cobain - Kurt Cobain
20. Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
21. Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1 - Arthur Conan Doyle
22. Sherlock Holmes - Volume 2 - Arthur Conan Doyle
23. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
24. An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
25. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
26. the Odyssey - Homer
27. Love in the Card - Jimmy
28. Sound of Colors - Jimmy
29. Beautiful Solitude - Jimmy
30. Shinny and Moony - Jimmy
31. Missing My Cat - Jimmy
32. Pourquoi - Jimmy
33. Le Petit Prince - Antoine De St.-Exupery
34. Memoirs if a Geisha - Arthur Golden
35. Death in the Bunker - Ian Kershaw
36. Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
38. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
39. The A.B.C. Murders - Agatha Christie
40. The Clocks - Agatha Christie
41. Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie
42. A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie
43. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Last Governor - Jonathan Dimbleby
46. East and West - Chris Patten
47. Jack the Ripper - Paul Begg
48. A Literate Passion - Nin
49. The Last Star of the East - Tetsuya Akiko
50. The Great Wall of China and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
51. We are all the Same - James Wooten
52. Hawaii - James A. Michener
53. Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
54. The Unwanted - Kien Nguyen
55. The Tapestries - Kien Nguyen
56. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
57. Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto
68. Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle
69. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
70. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
71. Street Haunting - Virginia Woolf
72. On Seeing and Noticing - Alainde Botton
73. Forgetting Things - Sigmund Freud
74. Hopper - Rolf Renner
75. Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
76 - 100.  They range from a number of Photoshop and Flash manuals and quick–tip guides to draw manga and reference books - of which consist of painting and game guides.