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Japanese Books
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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1924 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.99 — 710,423 ratings — published 1987
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1660 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,672 ratings — published 2002
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1366 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.67 — 358,709 ratings — published 2016
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1201 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.14 — 310,061 ratings — published 1994
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1154 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 238,092 ratings — published 1948
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 1020 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.66 — 650,284 ratings — published 2015
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 1003 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 335,731 ratings — published 2009
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 997 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.90 — 124,712 ratings — published 1988
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 843 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,179 ratings — published 2004
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 808 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.83 — 177,888 ratings — published 1999
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 788 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.57 — 39,663 ratings — published 1948
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 783 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.11 — 150,050 ratings — published 1985
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 782 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,615 ratings — published 1914
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 698 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.87 — 199,768 ratings — published 2013
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 694 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.86 — 147,349 ratings — published 1992
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 680 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,786 ratings — published 2005
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 677 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,296 ratings — published 1962
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.84 — 50,900 ratings — published 1963
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 663 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.94 — 139,082 ratings — published 1982
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 605 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.70 — 130,300 ratings — published 1994
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 555 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,119 ratings — published 1949
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 549 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,273 ratings — published 1988
Strange Weather in Tokyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.68 — 50,662 ratings — published 2001
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 521 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.64 — 170,122 ratings — published 2010
Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,918 ratings — published 1997
Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 484 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.86 — 76,284 ratings — published 2008
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 481 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,673 ratings — published 1967
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 480 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.87 — 197,782 ratings — published 2007
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.79 — 83,948 ratings — published 2009
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.67 — 17,391 ratings — published 1906
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,059 ratings — published 1956
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.62 — 42,574 ratings — published 1997
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 447 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,258 ratings — published 2014
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.97 — 40,985 ratings — published 1947
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.60 — 95,324 ratings — published 2018
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 426 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,432 ratings — published 2020
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 422 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.33 — 98,763 ratings — published 2012
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 416 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.06 — 69,953 ratings — published 2013
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,880 ratings — published 2000
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 413 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.79 — 120,665 ratings — published 2012
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,511 ratings — published 1000
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 392 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,567 ratings — published 2005
Battle Royale (Paperback)
by (shelved 392 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.26 — 84,128 ratings — published 1999
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,472 ratings — published 1948
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 382 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,433 ratings — published 1993
Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.09 — 38,309 ratings — published 1966
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,286 ratings — published 1933
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.85 — 829,802 ratings — published 2005
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 362 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.55 — 68,500 ratings — published 2005
Thousand Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,174 ratings — published 1952
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“ To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrain from causing others embarrassment, no one will mind. But women who are too vain and act pretentiously, to the extent that they make others feel uncomfortable, will themselves become the object of attention; and once that happens, people will find fault with whatever they say or do; whether it be how they enter a room, how they sit down, how they stand up or how they take their leave. Those who end up contradicting themselves and those who disparage their companions are also carefully watched and listened to all the more. As long as you are free from such faults, people will surely refrain from listening to tittle-tattle and will want to show you sympathy, if only for the sake of politeness.
I am of the opinion that when you intentionally cause hurt to another, or indeed if you do ill through mere thoughtless behavior, you fully deserve to be censured in public. Some people are so good-natured that they can still care for those who despise them, but I myself find it very difficult. Did the Buddha himself in all his compassion ever preach that one should simply ignore those who slander the Three Treasures? How in this sullied world of ours can those who are hard done by be expected to reciprocate in kind?”
― The Diary of Lady Murasaki
I am of the opinion that when you intentionally cause hurt to another, or indeed if you do ill through mere thoughtless behavior, you fully deserve to be censured in public. Some people are so good-natured that they can still care for those who despise them, but I myself find it very difficult. Did the Buddha himself in all his compassion ever preach that one should simply ignore those who slander the Three Treasures? How in this sullied world of ours can those who are hard done by be expected to reciprocate in kind?”
― The Diary of Lady Murasaki
“When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
