11 must-read japan books like Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1) by Todd Wassel

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Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1)

By: Todd Wassel

4.35

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost between worlds. A 750-mile walk through Japan. A life that will never be the same. Todd Was…

If you liked the japan plot in Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1) by Todd Wassel , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of After the Quake by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

1. After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.77

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more

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  • japan
"Are you prepared to die?"

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

Cover of Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains by Paul  Barach

2. Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains

By: Paul Barach

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

A 750-mile pilgrimage, an unprepared office worker, and everything that went wrong along the way. A… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • japan
Cover of For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan by Sam Baldwin

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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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • japan
Cover of The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16) by Philippa Gregory

4. The Other Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #16)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two women competing for a man's heart. Two queens fighting to the death for dominance. The untold s… read more

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Cover of Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4) by C.J. Sansom

5. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)

By: C.J. Sansom

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more

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6. The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage

By: Robert C. Sibley

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

Compelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • japan
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7. Memory Wall

By: Anthony Doerr

3.91

Format: 160 pages,

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meanin… read more

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8. Four Pairs of Boots

By: Craig McLachlan

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

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9. The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan

By: Alan Booth

3.50

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth tra… read more

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10. The Jane Austen Book Club

By: Karen Joy Fowler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Extraordinary New York TimesBestsellerIn California's central valley, five women and one man jo… read more

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11. The Samurai's Garden

By: Gail Tsukiyama

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coast… read more

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12. Hokkaido Highway Blues. Hitchhiking Japan

By: Will Ferguson

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

The book follows Will Ferguson as he hitchhikes 1,800 miles north through Japan following the Cherr… read more

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13. 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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14. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

By: Matsuo Bashō , None

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… read more

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15. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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  • japan
Cover of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

16. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times book and Todd Wassel's Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1)

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Cover of We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

17. We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more

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18. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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19. 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
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance by Jeremy Eichler

20. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

By: Jeremy Eichler

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wart… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Shanghai by Joseph Kanon

21. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

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Cover of A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer

22. A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

By: Pico Iyer

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Art of Stillness--one of our most engaging and discerning travel w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • japan
"If they can’t get to Europe, they’ll find their way to a local theme-park Eiffel Tower. Even a place that we write off as “inauthentic,"

-Pico Iyer, A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations

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23. The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City

By: Anna Sherman

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers rest… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • japan
Cover of The Only Gaijin in the Village by Iain Maloney

24. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael  Crawley

25. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

By: Michael Crawley

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021 'Inspiring' The Guardian 'Excellent' Runner's Wo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners!  My Life in Japan in the 80's by Joe Palermo

26. No Pianos, Pets or Foreigners! My Life in Japan in the 80's

By: Joe Palermo

3.86

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Japanese woman was running through Tokyo station screaming “Save me! Save me!” There was a … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • japan
Cover of Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups by Anna McNuff

27. Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

By: Anna McNuff

4.40

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to kayak down a gorge in New Zealand? Or run night-time marathons through the … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"In a bid to keep my sanity, I shifted my focus from the things I couldn’t control to those that I could."

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

"Taking photos, doing our best to record the experience, but all the while knowing we couldn’t possibly capture this, not through a camera lens anyway. It was a landscape that only the richness of mem…"

-Anna McNuff, Bedtime Adventure Stories for Grown Ups

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28. The Breakup Lists

By: Adib Khorram

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more

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Cover of Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1) by Todd Wassel

29. Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1)

By: Todd Wassel

4.35

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost between worlds. A 750-mile walk through Japan. A life that will never be the same. Todd Was… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1) by India Holton

30. The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

By: India Holton

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-co… read more

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Cover of Walking with Buddha: Pilgrimage on the Shikoku 88-Temple Trail (Travel & Adventure Memoir Book 2) by C.W. Lockhart

31. Walking with Buddha: Pilgrimage on the Shikoku 88-Temple Trail (Travel & Adventure Memoir Book 2)

By: C.W. Lockhart

4.24

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Walking with Buddha is a moving-meditation set along Japan's stunning Shikoku 88-Temple Trail. The … read more

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  • travel

14 Top nonfiction books like Walking in Circles: Finding Happiness in Lost Japan (Round Earth Book 1) by Todd Wassel

Transform Your Habits

Fighting Monks and Burning Mountains

Paul Barach

4.15

Transform Your Habits

For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan

Sam Baldwin

3.59

The Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage

Robert C. Sibley

3.93

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May

3.86

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Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

Elise Downing

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor

Ben MacFarlane

4.48

Transform Your Habits

SOLO: What running across mountains taught me about life

Jenny Tough

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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Allie Bailey

4.39

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