21 Best japan books like What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

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Similar categories in Durian Sukegawa's Sweet Bean Paste book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• japanese literature
• japan

Similar categories in Sōsuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• books about books
• audiobook

"But time is merciless in its passing."

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis."

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"In today's world, a lot of what should be obvious has been turned upside down. The weak are used as stepping stones and those in need are taken advantage of. People just caught up in this pattern. No…"

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"Being able to express shallow words of sympathy in a sweet voice doesn't make someone a caring, compassionate soul. What's important is the ability to have empathy for another human being--to be able…"

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

Similar categories in Carsten Henn's The Door-to-Door Bookstore book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

"If you can tell when a book is good, why don’t you write one yourself?"

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"You need to read more. It makes the brain flexible, so that anything can fit into it."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"She didn't need to believe in God; it was entirely sufficient that God believed in her."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

"It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way."

-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

Similar categories in Lee Mi-ye's DallerGut Dream Department Store book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• books about books
• audiobook

"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• books about books
• audiobook

"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Similar categories in Hisashi Kashiwai's The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Similar categories in Makoto Shinkai's She and Her Cat: Stories book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• short stories
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued."

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat: Stories

Similar categories in Hiro Arikawa's The Travelling Cat Chronicles book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Guddo rakku!"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Because it was only natural to feel sad."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Thank you, for the honor of having you."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"Negativity is food for malady, one might say."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"She wanted to do things without having to worry what others thought. She simply lived for her freedom."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

"With the coffee in front of her, she closed her eyes, and inhaled deeply. It was her moment of happiness."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Similar categories in Emi Yagi's Diary of a Void book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"

-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void

Similar categories in Chris Bachelder's Dayswork book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• books about books
• audiobook

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

"Life, too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow..."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"Standing there together next to the tracks as the trains roared and whooshed past for what seemed like for ever, Kinuyo hugged Kazu tightly and stroked her head until she stopped crying. As time pass…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"La señora Kōtake estaba impactada porque su propio cuerpo también estaba inmerso en esa especie de vaivén, fundiéndose con el vapor del café. Cuando se dio cuenta, todo lo que había a su alrededor es…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"If I had led a sad life as a result of my sister's death, then it would have been as if her death had caused it. So, I thought I mustn't allow that to happen. I swore to myself that I would make sure…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• japan

"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

Similar categories in Hiro Arikawa's The Goodbye Cat book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• short stories
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• audiobook
• adult
• contemporary

"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• magical realism
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• japanese literature
• adult
• japan
• books about books

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

"Yet, even so, Mieko and I shared our lives. But Meiko had an accident and fell into a vegetative state. Her eyes no longer saw; her ears no longer heard. My children grieved, but as much as I felt it…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)

Similar categories in Shoji Morimoto's Rental Person Who Does Nothing book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• audiobook
• adult
• japanese literature
• japan

"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3) book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• magical realism
• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

"surviving alone is much the same as dying alone"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"I will remember this comforting warmth for the rest of my life"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

"When you give a gift to someone who is striving to achieve their dreams, you have to give them the most cherished thing you have. Some days that person who is chasing their dreams will not be able to…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Similar categories in Nanae Aoyama's A Perfect Day to Be Alone book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

"Is that how it feels to you? Oh, you bet. Pain, suffering - that stuff's always scary, no matter how long you've been around."

-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone

Similar categories in Nanako Hanada's The Bookshop Woman book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• japanese literature
• japan
• contemporary
• books about books
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nick Bradley's Four Seasons in Japan book and Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

• literary fiction
• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Without losing to the rain,’ Ayako quoted the Miyazawa Kenji poem. ‘Without losing to the wind."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"You don’t have to, though,’ his friend said, with a tilt of his head. ‘You can do whatever you like, man. It’s your life. Don’t live it for other people."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"But the important thing is that you turn up, you get out your pen, and you draw one small thing, one line at a time. That’s how you achieve something big."

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan

"I remember looking out into that dark night sky, and I remember feeling something I hadn’t in a long time – I want to live. Having found myself that close to death, I suddenly knew that I wasn’t read…"

-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan