10 Best japan books like Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima

Cover of Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima

Woman Running in the Mountains

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.86

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-w…

If you liked the japan plot in Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic by Osamu Dazai

1. Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

By: Osamu Dazai

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

read more

Similar categories in Osamu Dazai's Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • classics
  • literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • japan
Cover of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

2. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of The Fawn by Magda Szabó

3. The Fawn

By: Magda Szabó

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more

Similar categories in Magda Szabó's The Fawn book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Ik kom hier nog op terug by Rob van Essen

4. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

Similar categories in Rob van Essen's Ik kom hier nog op terug book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

Cover of Parade by Rachel Cusk

5. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

6. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • asian literature
  • 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

Cover of My Death by Lisa Tuttle

7. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's My Death book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

8. Lies and Sorcery

By: Elsa Morante

4.16

Format: 800 pages, Paperback

Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more

Similar categories in Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma

9. What I'd Rather Not Think About

By: Jente Posthuma

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Cover of Oersoep by Bregje Hofstede

10. Oersoep

By: Bregje Hofstede

3.77

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Iets wendde zich in mij, zoals je sommige pennen draait om de punt naar buiten te laten komen – en … read more

Similar categories in Bregje Hofstede's Oersoep book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

11. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • japan
Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

12. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • japan
Cover of The Silentiary by Antonio di Benedetto

13. The Silentiary

By: Antonio di Benedetto

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man em… read more

Similar categories in Antonio di Benedetto's The Silentiary book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

14. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • japan
"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Cover of Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima

15. Woman Running in the Mountains

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.86

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Pregnant and unmarried, Takiko, who lives at home with her violent, alcoholic father and her hard-w… read more

Similar categories in Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • novels
  • japan
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

16. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • asia
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • asian literature
  • japan
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Cover of Gold (New York Review Books Classics) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

17. Gold (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

4.38

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an Ame… read more

Similar categories in Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi's Gold (New York Review Books Classics) book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

18. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more

Similar categories in Seishi Yokomizo's The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • japan
Cover of The Last Sane Woman by Hannah Regel

19. The Last Sane Woman

By: Hannah Regel

3.67

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness by an… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Regel's The Last Sane Woman book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Ao Omae

20. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories

By: Ao Omae

3.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more

Similar categories in Ao Omae's People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • japan
Cover of The Third Love by Hiromi Kawakami

21. The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's The Third Love book and Yūko Tsushima's Woman Running in the Mountains

  • literary fiction
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • japan

21 best-selling fiction books like Woman Running in the Mountains by Yūko Tsushima

Transform Your Habits

Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

Osamu Dazai

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Transform Your Habits

The Fawn

Magda Szabó

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Ik kom hier nog op terug

Rob van Essen

3.78

View all the books

20 best-selling fiction books like The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6) by Seishi Yokomizo

Transform Your Habits

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Tattoo Murder Case

Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.