Lovely, here are my suggestions:

Hard-boiled Eggs in Wonderland - Haruki Murakami - ficiton

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami - fiction

In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami - horror/fiction

What is What - Dave Eggers - ficiton

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - fiction

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon - fiction

The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, And Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient - Sheridan Prasso - literature/nonfic/women's studies/social studies

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - lit/fiction

Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho - lit/fiction

If you have the same taste in books as I do, feel free to email me for some more suggestions.

Cheers -
-m