Japan

Books that are set in Japan.

New Releases Tagged "Japan"

Japanese Gothic
Honey in the Wound
Questions 27 & 28
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Klara and the Sun
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Japanese Gothic
Flashlight
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Dandadan, Vol. 1
Look Back
Water Moon
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
さよなら絵梨 [Sayonara Eri]
Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
愛しさに気づかぬうちに [第6巻]
Norwegian Wood
Convenience Store Woman
Kafka on the Shore
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Kitchen
Pachinko
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Snow Country
No Longer Human
博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD]
Kokoro
After Dark
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenGeisha, a Life by Mineko IwasakiGeisha by Liza DalbyAutobiography of a Geisha by Sayo MasudaA Geisha's Journey by Komomo
Geisha
47 books — 135 voters
Bridge of Birds by Barry HughartThe Tales of the Otori Trilogy by Lian HearnThe Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi OnoEon by Alison GoodmanMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese and Japanese Fantasy
315 books — 441 voters

Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiBattle Royale by Koushun Takami1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Best Japanese Books
778 books — 3,254 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
688 books — 241 voters
Shōgun by James ClavellAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnAnalogies Shorinjiryu Karatedo, Golf & Baseball by Mr. Emanuel Hawthorne KyoshiThe Ninja by Eric Van LustbaderThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Martial Arts Fiction
289 books — 226 voters


Ryū Murakami
After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there. ...more
Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

Ryan Graudin
Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
Ryan Graudin, The Walled City

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