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The highlight from my reading year was the Japanese literature course I took in May-July. Thanks to it I discovered fantastic writers such as Natsume Soseki, Ryonosuke Akutagawa, Mori Ogai, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oé, and Haruki Murakami. All were new to me and I read some terrific stuff from all of them, but Oé really blew me away with the best novel I read this year, namely The Silent Cry.