Future must-reads:

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Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima

Habibi, Craig Thompson (graphic novel)
http://www.amazon.com/Habibi-Craig-Thompson/dp/0375424148

Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
http://www.amazon.com/Habibi-Craig-Thompson/dp/0375424148

And re-read,

Cathedral, Raymond Carver

+ Must. Learn. Japanese.