The Only Gaijin in the Village
By: Iain Maloney
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan…
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1. Postcards from the Edge
By: Carrie Fisher
3.62
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationsh… read more
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- biography memoir
"It’s like I’ve got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I’ve got a lifetime pass."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
"Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
" Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
2. The Night Watch
By: Sarah Waters
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN . Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, bl… read more
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3. For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
By: Sam Baldwin
3.59
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan. A Japan where snak… read more
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- memoir
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- japan
4. My Sweet Audrina (Audrina, #1)
By: V.C. Andrews
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating … read more
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5. The Graveyard Apartment
By: Mariko Koike , Deborah Boliver Boehm
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
A terrifying tale of a young family who move into an apartment building next to a graveyard and the… read more
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6. Put Me in the Zoo
By: Robert Lopshire
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Spot, a polka-dot leopard who can change colors and even juggle his own spots, tries to convince tw… read more
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7. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
By: Jake Adelstein
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more
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8. Get Jiro!
By: Anthony Bourdain , Langdon Foss , Joel Rose
4.90
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER In a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town lik… read more
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9. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- biography
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- travel
- asia
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- japan
10. Remina
By: Junji Ito
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more
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- japan
11. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)
By: Jonathan Clements
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- japan
12. Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back
By: Gary John Bishop
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bisho… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Mantis
By: Kōtarō Isaka
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive new t… read more
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- asia
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14. The Only Gaijin in the Village
By: Iain Maloney
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan… read more
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- japan
15. How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart
By: Florentyna Leow
3.89
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and… read more
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- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- japan
16. Fifty Sounds
By: Polly Barton
4.15
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of… read more
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- memoir
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"Over time, I have come to believe that if language learning is anything, it is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable …"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Very often a desire to write is a desire to live more honestly through language' (Rachel Cusk)…In writing, one can be at a remove not only from the observing eye of society, but also from the somatic…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
"Oh, my son loves Japan!" she says, her voice soaring. "He's been studying Japanese, all by himself, and he went there recently actually for the first time, and he said he just felt immediately at hom…"-Polly Barton, Fifty Sounds
17. Four Seasons in Japan
By: Nick Bradley
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation… read more
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- asia
- japan
"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
18. One More Croissant for the Road
By: Felicity Cloake
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions o… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
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"God gave us the boulangerie for a reason and that reason is breakfast."-Felicity Cloake, One More Croissant for the Road
19. Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli
By: Karl Thomas Smith
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films … read more
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- japan
20. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld
By: Jake Adelstein
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, … read more
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21. Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld
By: Jake Adelstein
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memo… read more
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- nonfiction
- japan
"Due diligence involves a lot of paperwork and sometimes more footwork than you could possibly imagine; hopefully you’ll find the process of getting the job done as fascinating as I do. Real-world puz…"-Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan's Underworld
