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New Releases Tagged "Japan"

Japanese Supernatural Tales
Before You Were Anne (Chelsey Calhoun, #2)
The Gods Will Sing Our Song
Yakuza: A 400-Year History of the Japanese Underworld

Most Read This Week Tagged "Japan"

Klara and the Sun
Strange Pictures
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Japanese Gothic
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
Exit 8
Before You Were Anne (Chelsey Calhoun, #2)
Family of Spies
Look Back
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Flashlight
Water Moon
さよなら絵梨 [Sayonara Eri]
Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
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Japan Books

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
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Kokoro
After Dark
The Memory Police
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Lists

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
34 books — 135 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerCirce by Madeline MillerThe Pythagorean by Alexander MorpheighThe Odyssey by HomerThusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1 by Michael G. Kramer
The 52 Book Club 2026: #1 - Set In An Ancient Civilization
246 books — 242 voters

Rainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellThe Pillow Book by Sei ShōnagonThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Japan
274 books — 83 voters
The Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Dragon Republic by R.F. KuangJade City by Fonda LeeSpin the Dawn by Elizabeth LimWe Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
Asian Inspired Fantasy Novels
184 books — 123 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
692 books — 242 voters
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerWinging It by Lia RussReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
349 books — 189 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Japan”

L.M. Weeks
“ How many languages do you speak, you barely monolingual prick? ”
― L. M. Weeks, Bottled Lightning
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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
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Videos Tagged “Japan”

Aap Noot Mishima #13 – Yōko Ogawa's HOTEL IRIS
Aap Noot Mishima #13 – Yōko Ogawa's HOTEL IRIS
Aap Noot Mishima #12 – Yasunari Kawabata's SNEEUWLAND
Aap Noot Mishima #12 – Yasunari Kawabata's SNEEUWLAND
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Groups Tagged "Japan"

Japanese Light Novel Book Club --We are a book club for readers of light novels and novels from Japan. Our goal is to promote t…more
1,739 members, last active 4 days ago
Japan-Leseclub (BookTube) Lest euch zusammmen mit Fabienne vom Kanal Japan Connect und mir (mein Kanal ist Caros Bücher) d…more
42 members, last active 3 years ago
Book Options for Japan Research Project All of the books on our bookshelf are available to read…more
1 member, last active 9 years ago
MEAL — the MEAS Book Club The Goodreads database of the MEAS Book Club :)
2 members, last active 5 months ago