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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1923 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.99 — 712,171 ratings — published 1987
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1659 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,840 ratings — published 2002
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1368 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.67 — 359,979 ratings — published 2016
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1200 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.14 — 310,504 ratings — published 1994
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1155 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 239,395 ratings — published 1948
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 1025 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.66 — 653,964 ratings — published 2015
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 1000 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 336,112 ratings — published 2009
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 999 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.90 — 125,125 ratings — published 1988
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 841 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,525 ratings — published 2004
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 806 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.83 — 178,192 ratings — published 1999
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 788 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.57 — 39,770 ratings — published 1948
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,766 ratings — published 1914
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 780 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.11 — 150,310 ratings — published 1985
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 695 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.87 — 200,060 ratings — published 2013
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 690 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.86 — 147,667 ratings — published 1992
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.84 — 51,104 ratings — published 1963
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)
by (shelved 679 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,122 ratings — published 2005
The Woman in the Dunes (Paperback)
by (shelved 676 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.88 — 38,411 ratings — published 1962
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 660 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.94 — 139,294 ratings — published 1982
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 605 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.70 — 131,182 ratings — published 1994
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,250 ratings — published 1949
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,416 ratings — published 1988
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
by (shelved 523 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.64 — 171,870 ratings — published 2010
Strange Weather in Tokyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.68 — 50,843 ratings — published 2001
Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,060 ratings — published 1997
Breasts and Eggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 513 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.85 — 78,092 ratings — published 2008
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
by (shelved 479 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,717 ratings — published 1967
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.87 — 198,283 ratings — published 2007
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.79 — 84,372 ratings — published 2009
I Am a Cat (Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.67 — 17,457 ratings — published 1906
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 451 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,144 ratings — published 1956
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.62 — 42,765 ratings — published 1997
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 444 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,555 ratings — published 2014
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 437 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,197 ratings — published 1947
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 436 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.60 — 95,791 ratings — published 2018
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 430 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.04 — 107,543 ratings — published 2020
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 421 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.33 — 99,293 ratings — published 2012
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,367 ratings — published 2013
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.79 — 121,552 ratings — published 2012
After the Quake (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,960 ratings — published 2000
The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,534 ratings — published 1000
The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
by (shelved 393 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,844 ratings — published 2005
Battle Royale (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.26 — 84,287 ratings — published 1999
The Makioka Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,502 ratings — published 1948
The Elephant Vanishes (Paperback)
by (shelved 380 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,504 ratings — published 1993
Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.09 — 38,388 ratings — published 1966
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as japanese)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,378 ratings — published 1933
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 368 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.85 — 831,991 ratings — published 2005
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.55 — 68,616 ratings — published 2005
Thousand Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as japanese)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,221 ratings — published 1952
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
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“When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home.”
― In the Miso Soup
― In the Miso Soup
