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Oriental Books
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,115,249 ratings — published 1997
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.99 — 735,109 ratings — published 1987
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,295 ratings — published -350
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.94 — 575,165 ratings — published -500
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.12 — 552,148 ratings — published 2002
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.09 — 388,325 ratings — published 2005
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,573 ratings — published 2002
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.94 — 62,362 ratings — published 1645
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,418 ratings — published 2016
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.65 — 391,810 ratings — published 2007
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.08 — 882,265 ratings — published 1922
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.14 — 316,309 ratings — published 1994
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.30 — 124,382 ratings — published 1991
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.67 — 378,365 ratings — published 2016
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.89 — 130,520 ratings — published 1988
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.74 — 190,026 ratings — published 2004
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,863 ratings — published 1716
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.34 — 633,121 ratings — published 2017
Grass for His Pillow (Tales of the Otori, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,714 ratings — published 2003
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.56 — 41,869 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.94 — 258,402 ratings — published 1948
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,509,527 ratings — published 2003
Brilliance of the Moon (Tales of the Otori, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,600 ratings — published 2004
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.04 — 42,998 ratings — published 1914
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.67 — 18,293 ratings — published 1906
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 10 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.95 — 341,056 ratings — published 2009
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.14 — 155,824 ratings — published 2017
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.97 — 710,720 ratings — published 1989
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.41 — 213,672 ratings — published 1975
Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,943 ratings — published 2003
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.64 — 192,613 ratings — published 2010
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,028 ratings — published -400
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,844 ratings — published 1000
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,932 ratings — published 1949
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,148 ratings — published 1002
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,746,454 ratings — published 2007
The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.97 — 13,938 ratings — published 2006
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,829 ratings — published 1992
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,189 ratings — published 1956
Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.17 — 105,010 ratings — published 2021
Stormdancer (The Lotus Wars, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.79 — 18,768 ratings — published 2012
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.11 — 153,250 ratings — published 1985
Heaven's Net Is Wide (Tales of the Otori, #0)
by (shelved 8 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,757 ratings — published 2007
Greek Lessons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.60 — 47,432 ratings — published 2011
The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.71 — 86,921 ratings — published 2017
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.65 — 703,589 ratings — published 2015
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.62 — 45,778 ratings — published 1997
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,871 ratings — published 2008
La casa de las bellas durmientes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 3.49 — 8,251 ratings — published 1961
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oriental)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,082 ratings — published 800
“for like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”
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