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An Unusual Japanese Book List
Featuring classics in moderation, and focus on severely to slightly unhinged modern fiction, postmodern books and graphic novels.
219 books ·
178 voters ·
list created December 8th, 2011
by Lindu Pindu (votes) .
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BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...)
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Nov 20, 2013 04:12AM
It says "An Unusual Japanese Book List" but 'unsual' partly depends where you are from... Here in the Netherlands books by Yasunari Kawabata for instance are not (yet?) well read, and can therefore be considered 'unsual', as are the others I voted for. But Haruki Murakami, for instance, is very popular over here (which is why I haven't voted for him/added him).
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Hello there Booklovinglady, as you can see, anyone can add books to this list. I thought it might be a nice way for us to see even more unusual titles. I can't seem to recall whether I added the ubiquitous Murakami Haruki myself, but I definitely added Yoshihiro Tatsumi's books, which I wish more people knew about.
Cheers, Linda
Lindu wrote: "Hello there Booklovinglady, as you can see, anyone can add books to this list. I thought it might be a nice way for us to see even more unusual titles. I can't seem to recall whether I added the ..."
Don't get me wrong, I do like your list :-) It's just that although some authors are very popular in some countries outside of Japan, they are not in other countries (and don't ask me why, as I have no idea...), which is why some books may be 'unusual' in some countries but not in others :-)
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