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- Episode 1:
- Dongaragan - Avram Davidson (similar English work is The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection)
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- Hothouse/The Long Afternoon of Earth - Brian Aldiss
- The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
- Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
- Quicker Than The Eye, The October Country - Ray Bradbury
- The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
- Love Is The Plan the Plan is Death, The Starry Rift - James Tiptree Jr.
- The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World - Harlan Ellison
- Socrates in Love (Crying Out Love, In The Center Of The World) - Katayama Kyoichi
- Or All The Seas with Liquor - Yasutaka Tsutsui
- E Pluribus Unicorn featuring Die, Maestro, Die - Theodore Sturgeon
- The Lights in the Sky Are Stars - Frederic Brown
- Episode 2:
- A Study in Scarlet - Conan Doyle
- From The Moon. . . made up due to being changed. (theorized to refer to "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and in the manga was originally "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card... based on the title, it could also refer to "From The Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne or "From the New World" by Kishi Yusuke)
- Sea of Moisture... also made up? (theorized to be based on "Oceanic" by Greg Egan and "A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C. Clarke)
- Diaspora, Permutation City - Greg Egan
- Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
- Stranger in a Strange Land, The Door Into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein
- Inherit The Stars - James P. Hogan
- Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War - David Brin
- Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
- Shulock Holmes / 周ロック・ホームズ - Shimoda Kageki
- Episode 3:
- Haruki Murakami works in general including works he translated
- Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds - Manly Wade Wellman
- War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
- The Lost World - Conan Doyle
- Episode 4:
- A Study in Scarlet - Conan Doyle (also 'The Sign of the Four' -> 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' -> 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' -> 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' -> 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' -> 'The Valley of Fear' ->...)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
- The Life of Kafka - Ikeuchi Osamu
- Inherit the Stars - James P. Hogan
- Episode 5:
- Dogramagra - Yumeno Kyuusaku
- Black Death Hall Murders - Oguri Mushitarou
- An Offering to Nothingness - Nakai Hideo
- In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
- Summers' Sad Bad Jokes / さまぁ~ずの悲しいダジャレ - Summers (owarai comedy duo, compilation of bad jokes)
- Episode 6:
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- The Sister Karamazov - Takano Fumio (apparently translated as Shio in CR subs)
- Episode 7:
- High-Rise - J.G. Ballard
- Catalog for Iwanami Bunko Library of Classics series
- Episode 8:
- Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
- Why Don't Truck Selling Laundry Poles Go Bankrupt? Accounting Questions Starting with the Most Familiar - Yamada Shinya
- Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson M.D
- Ubik - Philip K. Dick
- The Door Into Summer, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
- Entire set of blue back Hayakawa SF works
- Interesting read for anyone who may be amused by the concept of this manga:
- How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read - Pierre Bayard
- Episode 9:
- Black cover books like Watchmen, Fahrenheit 451, World War Z, 69, The Road, etc.
- Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
- Ice - Anna Kavan
- Episode 10:
- Ozaki Hosai freeform haiku works (such as I Cough, Yet I Am Alone among others)
- Kokoro - Natsume Souseki
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Episode 11:
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Run, Melos! - Dazai Osamu
- The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
- Not books exactly, but letters between Hemingway/Fitzgerald or Kawabata Yasunari/Mishima Yukio can be found in published works
- Episode 12:
- Poems by Dylan Thomas such as "Do not go gentle into that good night"
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Matched / Crossed / Reached (also Cassia no Monogatari) - Ally Condie
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