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A book set in Japan.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Pachinko
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Convenience Store Woman
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Red Winter (Red Winter Trilogy, #1)
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Dark Tempest (Red Winter Trilogy, #2)
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Norwegian Wood
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Immortal Fire (Red Winter Trilogy, #3)
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Annette Marie (Goodreads Author)
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Warcross (Warcross, #1)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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Battle Royale
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 133,693 ratings
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 990,256 ratings
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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Kitchen
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3.90 avg rating — 126,065 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Sweet Bean Paste
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4.06 avg rating — 71,185 ratings
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Wildcard (Warcross, #2)
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Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 59,175 ratings
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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4.03 avg rating — 67,333 ratings
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The Guest Cat
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Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1
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Hiroshima
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The Woman in the White Kimono
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Ana Johns (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 26,891 ratings
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Out
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3.94 avg rating — 47,345 ratings
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 75,621 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
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Marie Kondō (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 389,691 ratings
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Tales from the Cafe (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 128,014 ratings
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Akira, Vol. 1
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4.41 avg rating — 38,937 ratings
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No Longer Human
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3.95 avg rating — 242,362 ratings
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Confessions
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
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Silence
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A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain, #1)
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Barry Eisler (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,278 ratings
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The Makioka Sisters
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 44,908 ratings
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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3.87 avg rating — 200,762 ratings
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The Samurai's Garden
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4.16 avg rating — 28,064 ratings
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Ring (Ring, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 30,127 ratings
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Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 (Sailor Moon, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 54,443 ratings
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After Dark
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3.74 avg rating — 186,272 ratings
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I Love You So Mochi
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Sarah Kuhn (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 6,831 ratings
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
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3.37 avg rating — 14,878 ratings
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
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3.79 avg rating — 123,665 ratings
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The Memory Police
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3.70 avg rating — 132,909 ratings
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Kafka on the Shore
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4.12 avg rating — 540,212 ratings
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The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2)
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4.28 avg rating — 8,062 ratings
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Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
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4.17 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1)
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Renée Ahdieh (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 48,214 ratings
score: 200,
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American Fuji
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Sara Backer (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Tale of Murasaki
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Liza Dalby (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 4,541 ratings
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A Darkly Beating Heart
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Lindsay Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 604 ratings
score: 196,
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 38,075 ratings
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Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
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My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2)
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Black Rain
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3.99 avg rating — 4,521 ratings
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Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy (Red Winter Trilogy, #1-3)
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Annette Marie (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Burnt Shadows
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3.93 avg rating — 8,667 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
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Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)
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Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25,080 ratings
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The Aosawa Murders
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The Pillow Book
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Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)
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The Commoner
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Sayonara
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3.91 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
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Snow Country
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I Am a Cat
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3.67 avg rating — 17,576 ratings
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Blood of Tyrants (Temeraire, #8)
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Break the Fall
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4.06 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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The Earthquake Bird
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Rainbirds
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3.48 avg rating — 7,180 ratings
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
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The Monster on the Road Is Me
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Plum Rains
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La porta
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In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow
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4.25 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 10,031 ratings
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori, #4)
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De laatste concubine (The Shogun Quartet, #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 3,346 ratings
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My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life
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Meet You By Hachiko
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3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
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There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
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Inspector Imanishi Investigates
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The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
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Spiral (Ring #2)
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Sake
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Tokyo
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Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 12,837 ratings
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Smoke in the Sun (Flame in the Mist, #2)
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Renée Ahdieh (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 16,788 ratings
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Slurp! a Social and Culinary History of Ramen - Japan's Favorite Noodle Soup
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Il peso dei segreti
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Journey Under the Midnight Sun
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Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
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The 47 Ronin Story
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La voce degli spiriti eroici
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The Emissary
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Stella
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May 03, 2020 10:53AM
The Travelling Cat Chronicles is in her two times :)
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Stella wrote: "The Travelling Cat Chronicles is in her two times :)"I noticed that too. A librarian needs to do a merge and that will fix it.
As soon as I had gotten to the third cat book, I knew I found a new favorite genre.
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