6 must-read amazon books like At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano

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At the End of the Matinee

By: Keiichirō Hirano

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in…

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Cover of You, Me, and the Colors of Life by Noa C. Walker, None, Lisa Reinhardt

1. You, Me, and the Colors of Life

By: Noa C. Walker , None , Lisa Reinhardt

4.10

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Faced with challenges from an early age, Janica has learned to celebrate and enjoy every day as a g… read more

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  • romance
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Cover of Tokyo Decadence by Ryū Murakami, Yuko Otake, Marco Fiocca

2. Tokyo Decadence

By: Ryū Murakami , Yuko Otake , Marco Fiocca

3.68

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In una Tokyo in piena decadenza, giovani schiave del sesso a pagamento tentano di conservare un bri… read more

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  • asia
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"If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it."

-Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence

"when beautiful women get angry, it scares people. Ugly women get mad and it’s just comical, right?"

-Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence

"Self-esteem isn’t an emotion. Self-esteem is just self-knowledge, a solid understanding of your limitations. It’s living according to your own standards."

-Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence

"Find something that, when you’re doing it, makes you feel like you don’t have anywhere to go. If you don’t find it, you’ll end up having to go somewhere you don’t want to."

-Ryū Murakami, Tokyo Decadence

3. Highway with Green Apples

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.50

Format: 200 pages,

Award-winning Korean writer Bae Suah tells the story of a young woman in search of meaning as she c… read more

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4. Nowhere to Be Found

By: Bae Suah , Sora Kim-Russell

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences sh… read more

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5. The Great Passage

By: Shion Miura , None , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-w… read more

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6. All the Lovers in the Night

By: Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more

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"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

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7. The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

By: Marc Levy

4.01

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From international bestselling author Marc Levy comes a witty and beguiling novel of one woman’s un… read more

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"Just because somebody is gone doesn’t mean they don’t exist anymore—with a little imagination, you’re never alone."

-Marc Levy, The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

"Como dice una canción, me ha rozado el alma y me la ha cambiado, ¿cómo perdonarle el haber hecho nacer en mí las ganas de querer y de que me quieran?"

-Marc Levy, The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

"You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you."

-Marc Levy, The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

Cover of This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura

8. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

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  • japanese literature
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"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

Cover of The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1) by Shion Miura

9. The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)

By: Shion Miura

3.97

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the … read more

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Cover of Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima

10. Territory of Light

By: Yūko Tsushima

3.59

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-yea… read more

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  • japan
"Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?"

-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

"During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and…"

-Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

Cover of The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

11. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

4.06

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional and sweeping memoir of love and survival—and of a committed and desperate family uproo… read more

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  • asia
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"Hate is not from God. People who use religion to hate can't love God. It is impossible."

-Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller, The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan

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12. A Woman of Pleasure

By: Kiyoko Murata

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more

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  • asia
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Cover of Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2) by Shion Miura

13. Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest, #2)

By: Shion Miura

4.06

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel a… read more

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Cover of The Son and Heir: A Memoir by Alexander Münninghoff

14. The Son and Heir: A Memoir

By: Alexander Münninghoff

3.81

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and … read more

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15. The Ardent Swarm

By: Yamen Manai

4.10

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more

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"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."

-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."

-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm

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16. A Single Swallow

By: Zhang Ling

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate nove… read more

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Cover of Amora: Stories by Natalia Borges Polesso

17. Amora: Stories

By: Natalia Borges Polesso

3.74

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love b… read more

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Cover of At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano

18. At the End of the Matinee

By: Keiichirō Hirano

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in… read more

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  • music
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  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson

19. Return to the Enchanted Island

By: Johary Ravaloson

2.71

Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition

In this exhilarating prize-winning novel—only the second to be published in English from Madagascar… read more

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20. Go

By: Kazuki Kaneshiro

3.63

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translate… read more

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"But,"

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Though I may have been a misfit, I was also a romantic."

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Nationality isn’t much more than a lease to an apartment, "

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

"Take a good look at the wide world,' he said. 'You decide the rest."

-Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go

Cover of So We Look to the Sky by Misumi Kubo

21. So We Look to the Sky

By: Misumi Kubo

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in the Japan: “Pressingly… read more

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16 Best fiction books like At the End of the Matinee by Keiichirō Hirano

Transform Your Habits

You, Me, and the Colors of Life

Noa C. Walker , None , Lisa Reinhardt

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Tokyo Decadence

Ryū Murakami , Yuko Otake , Marco Fiocca

3.68

Transform Your Habits

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

Marc Levy

4.01

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On Two Feet and Wings

Abbas Kazerooni

4.22

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Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

Kay Bratt

3.42

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Laura Coleman

4.34

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Ousman Umar

4.27

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