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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2584 times as japan)
avg rating 3.98 — 762,742 ratings — published 1987
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2367 times as japan)
avg rating 3.66 — 402,504 ratings — published 2016
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 2078 times as japan)
avg rating 4.11 — 570,558 ratings — published 2002
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1994 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,138,055 ratings — published 1997
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1717 times as japan)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,416 ratings — published 1994
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 1579 times as japan)
avg rating 3.65 — 758,284 ratings — published 2015
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1530 times as japan)
avg rating 3.89 — 137,458 ratings — published 1988
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1389 times as japan)
avg rating 4.34 — 677,619 ratings — published 2017
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 1319 times as japan)
avg rating 3.95 — 347,393 ratings — published 2009
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 1279 times as japan)
avg rating 3.55 — 43,938 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1238 times as japan)
avg rating 3.93 — 281,213 ratings — published 1948
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博士の愛した数式 [新潮CD] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1214 times as japan)
avg rating 4.04 — 103,942 ratings — published 2003
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 1151 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 46,064 ratings — published 1914
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1125 times as japan)
avg rating 3.74 — 195,619 ratings — published 2004
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1057 times as japan)
avg rating 3.68 — 155,431 ratings — published 1994
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1044 times as japan)
avg rating 4.41 — 219,298 ratings — published 1975
A Tale for the Time Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1039 times as japan)
avg rating 4.06 — 139,367 ratings — published 2013
Strange Weather in Tokyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1021 times as japan)
avg rating 3.67 — 55,923 ratings — published 2001
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 1017 times as japan)
avg rating 3.82 — 187,350 ratings — published 1999
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 986 times as japan)
avg rating 3.87 — 208,890 ratings — published 2013
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 937 times as japan)
avg rating 4.33 — 112,151 ratings — published 2012
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 930 times as japan)
avg rating 3.85 — 156,875 ratings — published 1992
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 907 times as japan)
avg rating 4.11 — 156,730 ratings — published 1985
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 899 times as japan)
avg rating 3.63 — 214,300 ratings — published 2010
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 886 times as japan)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,546 ratings — published 1962
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 881 times as japan)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,232 ratings — published 1000
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 868 times as japan)
avg rating 3.94 — 145,638 ratings — published 1982
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 846 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,391 ratings — published 1948
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 837 times as japan)
avg rating 3.83 — 56,447 ratings — published 1963
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 799 times as japan)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,396 ratings — published 1933
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 798 times as japan)
avg rating 4.01 — 137,563 ratings — published 2020
Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 796 times as japan)
avg rating 3.84 — 87,626 ratings — published 2008
Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 775 times as japan)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,318 ratings — published 1966
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 732 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,678 ratings — published 1967
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 722 times as japan)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,204 ratings — published 2013
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as japan)
avg rating 3.95 — 42,246 ratings — published 1949
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 715 times as japan)
avg rating 4.16 — 83,876 ratings — published 2005
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as japan)
avg rating 4.04 — 102,547 ratings — published 1988
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as japan)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,147 ratings — published 2018
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as japan)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,554 ratings — published 1956
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 665 times as japan)
avg rating 3.86 — 215,309 ratings — published 2007
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 653 times as japan)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,494 ratings — published 1946
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 652 times as japan)
avg rating 3.77 — 48,192 ratings — published 1986
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as japan)
avg rating 3.77 — 60,449 ratings — published 2000
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 643 times as japan)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,508 ratings — published 1002
Tokyo Ueno Station (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as japan)
avg rating 3.43 — 32,363 ratings — published 2014
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 621 times as japan)
avg rating 3.65 — 19,248 ratings — published 1906
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 581 times as japan)
avg rating 3.61 — 49,147 ratings — published 1997
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 580 times as japan)
avg rating 4.03 — 68,585 ratings — published 2010
“When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?”
― Autobiography of a Geisha
― Autobiography of a Geisha
“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
