Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan: “He explains its probable use, as a kind of random prompt for fortune-telling, like tarot cards or the I Ching.”
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion: “I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.”
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick: “"Seated on his bed, a cup of lukewarm tea beside him, Frink got down his copy of the I Ching." / "NOBUSUKE TAGOMI sat consulting the divine Fifth Book of Confucian wisdom, the Taoist oracle called for centuries the I Ching or Book of Changes." — consulted repeatedly by multiple characters throughout the narrative as a real divinatory…”
In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn: “His system was the old scholarly one: he used the book known to English readers as the Yi-King,--also a set of ebony blocks which could be so arranged as to form any of the Chinese hexagrams;--and he always began his divination with an earnest prayer to the gods.”
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura: “The archaic records of China, especially the Book of Changes, foreshadow his thought.”
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki: “The master's only reason for revering this prose is that nobody understands it at all, just as Taoists revere the Tao Te Ching, Confucians the I Ching, and Zen followers the Record of Linji. [auto-translated]”
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi by Fukuzawa Yukichi: “Among the library was a set of thirteen volumes of the I Ching with annotations, with Ito Togai's own handwritten notes in the margins, a splendid thing that my late father had bought in Osaka and prized. [auto-translated]”