A Decade of Hit Books

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Izumi (12 Lists)



Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiKitchen by Banana YoshimotoNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese authors
238 books — 176 voters
Genki I by Eri BannoA Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 日本語基本文法辞典 by Seiichi MakinoThe Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course by Andrew Scott ConningGENKI by Eri BannoBasic Kanji Book, Vol. 1 by Chieko Kano
Best Japanese Learning Textbooks
75 books — 105 voters

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenShōgun by James ClavellNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiTokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
Best Books About Japan
535 books — 361 voters
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki MurakamiNorwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Best Haruki Murakami Books
28 books — 850 voters

Rainbirds by Clarissa GoenawanIf Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki KawamuraThis Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta ToerFootsteps by Pramoedya Ananta ToerHouse of Glass by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Novels with an East Asian or South-East Asian Male Lead(POV)
184 books — 56 voters
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleThe Girl from the Well by Rin ChupecoLovecraft Country by Matt RuffBleeding Violet by Dia ReevesAnother by Yukito Ayatsuji
Diverse Horror
282 books — 173 voters

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanShanghai Girls by Lisa SeeThe Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Best Novels That Take Place in China
434 books — 1,109 voters
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook ShinPachinko by Min Jin LeeThe Vegetarian by Han KangWhen My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue ParkHuman Acts by Han Kang
Fiction by Korean Authors and/or Containing Korean Characters
485 books — 446 voters

Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko OgawaA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Literature by Japanese Women
165 books — 163 voters
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy Novels by Women of Color
264 books — 195 voters


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