All information for the CWAJ Reading Group is posted here. All CWAJ members and their guests are welcome to participate.
Discussion Leader: Magdalena Iwamura
Discussion questions: Click here.
Exhibit at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from September 12 to December 21:
Van Gogh's Home: The Van Gogh Museum. The Painter's Legacy, the Family Collection, the Ongoing Story
For more information, click here.
Click the book cover for more information on Goodreads.
Wednesday, September 24
10 am to noon
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5505646417
Hosted by Amy Fujii
Thursday, September 25
7:30 pm to 9 pm
Zoom link:
https://agos-co-jp.zoom.us/j/9188307374
Hosted by Gwen Catley
Click the Book Cover image to read more information about the book on Goodreads.
Please send your book recommendations for 2026 to reading@cwaj.org.
Books recommended so far:
We Do Not Part by Hang Kang
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki (translated by Polly Barton)
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
They Hang Me in Tokyo by Allan West
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Storm Rider by Akira Yoshimura (translated by Philip Gabriel)
Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
Cinnamon Beach by Suzanna Kamata
Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Asa Yoneda)
One Man's Justice by Akira Yoshimura (translated by Mark Ealey)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (nonfiction)
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Heat Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong
The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani, translated by Sam Betts
Mansfield Park by Jane Austin
Need some inspiration for Japanese authors to recommend, click here or click here. Thanks to Ann for these great links.
Co-Leaders:
Yukiko Sato and Amy Fujii
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