Business & Economics
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, by Barbara Weltman
- The 4-Hour Work Week, by Timothy Ferriss
- Awkening the Entrepreneur Within, by Michael E. Gerber
- The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
- The Ten-Day MBA, by Steven A. Silbiger
- Getting Started in Financial Consulting, by Edward J. Stone
- Own Your Own Corporation, by Garrett Sutton, Esq.
- The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack
- What They (still) Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School, by Mark McCormack
- Never Wrestle with a Pig (You get dirty and the pig enjoys it.), by Mark McCormack
- Barclays The Business of Banking 1690-1996, by Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah
- The House of Nomura, by Al Alletzhauser
- How to be Rich, by J. Paul Getty
- Merchants of Grain (The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World’s Food Supply), by Dan Morgan
- The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Thinking Strategically, by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
- The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler
- The Sales Bible, by Jeffery Gitomer
- After the Trade is Made (Processing Securities Transactions), by David M. Weiss
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
Life in Japan
- Chasing The Cherry Blossom, by Lowell Sheppard
- Living in Japan, by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
- Nagoya Footsteps, compiled by the Nagoya International Center
- The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, by Ruth Benedict
- Teach English in Japan, by Charles Wordell and Greta Gorusch
- Teaching English in Japan, by Jerry O’Sullivan
- A Handbook for Teaching English at Japanese Colleges and Universities, by Paul Wadden
- The Language Teaching Matrix, by Jack C. Richards
Self-Improvement
- Web Analytics for Dummies, by Pedro Sostre and Jennifer LeClaire
- Guide to Effective E-mail, by Shirley Taylor
- The 7 Habits of Highly-Effective People, by Stephen Covey
- Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks, by Marilyn vos Savant and Leonore Fleischer
- Think like Da Vinci, by Michael J. Gelb
- Massage for Dummies, by Steven Capellini
- The Elements of Style, by William Strunk
- The Rules of the Game, by Neil Strauss
- Work Smarter Not Harder, by Jack Collis and Michael Leboeuf
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
- Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill
- Difficult Conversations, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
- The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander, by Barbara Coloroso
Psychology and Sociology
- The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright
- Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
- Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
- Social Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
- Body Language for Dummies, by Elizabeth Kuhnke
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Body Language, by Peter A. Andersen
- How to Read a Person like a Book, by Gerlad Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero
Miscellaneous
- Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- Collapse, by Jared Diamond
- The Third Chimpanzee (The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal), by Jared Diamond
- The Orgin of Species, by Charles Darwin
- Asimov’s New Guide to Science, by Isaac Asimov
- The Pirate Wars, by Peter Earle
- The Art of War, by Sun Tsu
- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
- A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory and Technique, by Renzo and Royler Gracie
- Tao of Jeet Kune Do, by Bruce Lee