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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2587 times as japan)
avg rating 3.98 — 764,938 ratings — published 1987
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2375 times as japan)
avg rating 3.66 — 403,953 ratings — published 2016
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2081 times as japan)
avg rating 4.11 — 571,947 ratings — published 2002
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1999 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,139,787 ratings — published 1997
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1721 times as japan)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,980 ratings — published 1994
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 1584 times as japan)
avg rating 3.65 — 761,935 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1533 times as japan)
avg rating 3.89 — 137,893 ratings — published 1988
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1394 times as japan)
avg rating 4.34 — 680,738 ratings — published 2017
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 1321 times as japan)
avg rating 3.95 — 347,893 ratings — published 2009
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1281 times as japan)
avg rating 3.55 — 44,066 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1236 times as japan)
avg rating 3.93 — 282,841 ratings — published 1948
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博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1217 times as japan)
avg rating 4.04 — 104,332 ratings — published 2003
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 1153 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 46,302 ratings — published 1914
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1124 times as japan)
avg rating 3.74 — 196,051 ratings — published 2004
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1064 times as japan)
avg rating 3.68 — 156,573 ratings — published 1994
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1047 times as japan)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,695 ratings — published 1975
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1040 times as japan)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,558 ratings — published 2013
Strange Weather in Tokyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1028 times as japan)
avg rating 3.67 — 56,088 ratings — published 2001
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1018 times as japan)
avg rating 3.82 — 187,764 ratings — published 1999
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 989 times as japan)
avg rating 3.87 — 209,258 ratings — published 2013
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 939 times as japan)
avg rating 4.33 — 112,586 ratings — published 2012
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 932 times as japan)
avg rating 3.85 — 157,257 ratings — published 1992
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 907 times as japan)
avg rating 4.11 — 157,006 ratings — published 1985
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 901 times as japan)
avg rating 3.63 — 215,655 ratings — published 2010
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 889 times as japan)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,696 ratings — published 1962
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 883 times as japan)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,256 ratings — published 1000
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 869 times as japan)
avg rating 3.94 — 145,889 ratings — published 1982
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 851 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,425 ratings — published 1948
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 840 times as japan)
avg rating 3.83 — 56,627 ratings — published 1963
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 803 times as japan)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,524 ratings — published 1933
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 803 times as japan)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,390 ratings — published 2020
Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 798 times as japan)
avg rating 3.84 — 88,022 ratings — published 2008
Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 775 times as japan)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,448 ratings — published 1966
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 733 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,742 ratings — published 1967
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 722 times as japan)
avg rating 4.04 — 87,035 ratings — published 2013
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 717 times as japan)
avg rating 3.95 — 42,428 ratings — published 1949
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 715 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 84,348 ratings — published 2005
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as japan)
avg rating 4.04 — 102,715 ratings — published 1988
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 679 times as japan)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,709 ratings — published 2018
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as japan)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,652 ratings — published 1956
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 665 times as japan)
avg rating 3.86 — 215,948 ratings — published 2007
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 655 times as japan)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,644 ratings — published 1946
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 654 times as japan)
avg rating 3.77 — 48,329 ratings — published 1986
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as japan)
avg rating 3.77 — 60,555 ratings — published 2000
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 645 times as japan)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,521 ratings — published 1002
Tokyo Ueno Station (Paperback)
by (shelved 626 times as japan)
avg rating 3.43 — 32,461 ratings — published 2014
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 622 times as japan)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,308 ratings — published 1906
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 583 times as japan)
avg rating 3.61 — 49,379 ratings — published 1997
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 581 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 68,647 ratings — published 2010
“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
