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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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 ready to die. I experienced awe and wonder at this world we live in. How incredible existence is. The probability of our being here, of having survived as a species on this tiny speck of a planet. I was gripped with a desire to keep going – to experience more of this thing we call existence. It dawned on me how precious life is."-Nick Bradley, Four Seasons in Japan
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1. DallerGut Dream Department Store
By: Lee Mi-ye
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies h… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- 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
2. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.87
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more
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- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- adult
- japan
- audiobook
3. Honeybees and Distant Thunder
By: Riku Onda
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and riv… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- japan
"The highest form of human achievement was music. Human beings might have dirty, repulsive aspects to them, but out of the sordid swamp that was humanity - no, it was precisely because of this chaotic…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"Music always had to be of the now. It couldn't just be something preserved in a museum, and it was meaningless unless it was alive in the present. If you were satisfied with merely unearthing a lovel…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What kind of job was it to be a musician? What sort of vocation was it, anyway? Vocation - that was the perfect word for it. It really was a calling, a living calling. It didn't fill your stomach, di…"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
"What a strange thing music was. It was just one small individual up there performing, and the notes created by those fingers were here one moment and gone the next. Yet what was there was almost the …"-Riku Onda, Honeybees and Distant Thunder
4. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
- 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)
"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)
"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)
5. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- 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
6. 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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- audiobook
- asia
- japanese literature
- japan
7. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
- 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
8. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
By: Hisashi Kashiwai
3.70
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- adult
- japan
- 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)
9. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- 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
10. The Goodbye Cat
By: Hiro Arikawa
3.90
Format: 285 pages, ebook
In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- adult
- japan
- 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
11. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- japan
- audiobook
12. Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.96
Format: 173 pages, ebook
The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a… read more
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- japanese literature
- japan
- asian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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)
13. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
14. A Perfect Day to Be Alone
By: Nanae Aoyama
3.12
Format: 160 pages, ebook
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- japan
- 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
15. The Lantern of Lost Memories
By: Sanaka Hiiragi
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a ma… read more
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- asia
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
16. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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- asia
- japanese literature
- japan
- asian literature
- contemporary
- audiobook
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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- literary fiction
- asia
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- adult
- japan
- 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
18. The Silence In Between
By: Josie Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more
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- fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
19. Goodnight Tokyo
By: Atsuhiro Yoshida
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metrop… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- adult
- japan
20. 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
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- literary fiction
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
21. The Marigold Mind Laundry
By: Jungeun Yun
3.40
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart. In this enc… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
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