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Keigo Higashino

Born

in Osaka, Japan

February 04, 1958

Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Crime

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Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)

Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.　(presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and pu ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 304,337 ratings · 47,645 reviews · 189 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 74,840 ratings — published 2005 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, Sam Bett (Translator) 4.41 avg rating — 39,906 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Malice (Detective Kaga, #1) by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 34,216 ratings — published 1996 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo, #2) by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 25,951 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 18,316 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2) by Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray 4.09 avg rating — 15,616 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Midsummer's Equation (Detective Galileo #3) by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 11,331 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 7,188 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4) by Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 6,821 ratings — published 2018 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naoko by Keigo Higashino, Kerim Yasar (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 6,278 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Detective Galileo (10 books)
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สุรีรัตน์ งามสง่าพงษ์ (Translator),

วิลาสินี สาโรวาท (Translator)

4.08 avg rating — 124,931 ratings

Detective Galileo (English Translation) (5 books)
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Giles Murray (Translator)

4.09 avg rating — 121,409 ratings

Kyoichiro Kaga (12 books)
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東野圭吾

4.04 avg rating — 65,458 ratings

Detective Kaga (English Translation) (4 books)
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Keigo Higashino,

Giles Murray (Translator)

4.05 avg rating — 61,110 ratings

ブラック・ショーマン (4 books)
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히가시노 게이고

3.96 avg rating — 2,688 ratings

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Top two books via RANKED CHOICE win as October and November reads. Take a look at the thread for more info about books. Please check your local availability/price comfort before you vote. Again, apologies for going AWOL, but it slowed us down. Vote by Friday so people have time to get book copies?

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Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder); 288 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability—newly released in August; no obvious CWs

7 votes 50.0%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani; ~230 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; no obvious CWs

4 votes 28.6%

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura (trans. Philip Gabriel); ~350 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW bullying

2 votes 14.3%

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami; ~200 pages, depending on the edition; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW for significant violence

1 vote 7.1%

Journey Under the Midnight Sun aka (Under the Midnight Sun in North America) by Keigo Higashino (trans. Alexander O. Smith); ~530 pages; US and UK availability on Bookshop.org; CW—it's a murder mystery

0 votes 0.0%

Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe (trans. Kerim Yasar); 155 pages; US and UK Bookshop.org availability; CW misogyny, generally creepy male protagonist

0 votes 0.0%

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