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Japanese Classics Books
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No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 288,145 ratings — published 1948
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.96 — 48,190 ratings — published 1947
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,539 ratings — published 1906
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 47,035 ratings — published 1914
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,326 ratings — published 1000
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.55 — 44,543 ratings — published 1948
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,558 ratings — published 1948
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.83 — 57,258 ratings — published 1963
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,982 ratings — published 1956
Rashomon and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,828 ratings — published 1915
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 349,434 ratings — published 2009
The Poems of Nakahara Chuya (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,269 ratings — published 1993
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,232 ratings — published 1962
Schoolgirl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 28,528 ratings — published 1939
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,520 ratings — published 1956
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,983 ratings — published 1967
The Sound of Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,011 ratings — published 1954
Naomi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.68 — 9,280 ratings — published 1924
Sanshirō (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,601 ratings — published 1908
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,542 ratings — published 1927
Beauty and Sadness (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,169 ratings — published 1963
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,571 ratings — published 1002
The Moon Over the Mountain: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 656 ratings — published 2010
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,060 ratings — published 1933
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.95 — 42,982 ratings — published 1949
Kappa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,814 ratings — published 1927
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,345 ratings — published 1050
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 576,469 ratings — published 2002
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.98 — 771,989 ratings — published 1987
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,185 ratings — published 1212
One Hundred Leaves: A new annotated translation of the Hyakunin Isshu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,167 ratings — published 1235
The Old Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,333 ratings — published 1962
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.63 — 27,871 ratings — published 1946
Thirst for Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.63 — 8,082 ratings — published 1950
The Hunting Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,376 ratings — published 1949
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,462 ratings — published 2003
The Life of a Stupid Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 12,405 ratings — published 1927
W lesie pod wiśniami w pełnym rozkwicie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,017 ratings — published 1947
Quicksand (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,660 ratings — published 1928
The Three-Cornered World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,057 ratings — published 1906
The Miner (English and Japanese Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,025 ratings — published 1908
The Master of Go (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,904 ratings — published 1951
The Sound of the Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 9,967 ratings — published 1954
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 385,820 ratings — published 1989
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.77 — 48,745 ratings — published 1986
Thousand Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.69 — 16,661 ratings — published 1952
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.60 — 9,488 ratings — published 1961
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,479 ratings — published 1904
Five Modern No Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.09 — 722 ratings — published 1950
The Tale of the Heike (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as japanese-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,643 ratings — published 1219
“Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
“A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him; the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage. Etsuko however, had in her heart not the slightest interest in these matters. Her soul knew nothing but affirmation.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love