19 Best fiction books like Takasebune by Ōgai Mori

Cover of Takasebune by Ōgai Mori

Takasebune

By: Ōgai Mori

3.99

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

明治・大正期の文学者、森鴎外の短編小説。初出は「中央公論」[1916(大正5)年1日。弟殺しの罪で島送りとなる喜助。彼を高瀬舟で護送する同心の羽田庄兵衛。同心は罪人である喜助の晴れやかな態度に疑問を…

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Cover of Minna no Nihongo I by None, 3A Network

1. Minna no Nihongo I

By: None , 3A Network

4.07

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

本書の対象は、職場、家庭、学校、地域などで日本語によるコミュニケーションを今すぐ必要としている外国人のみなさんです。初級の教材ですが、登場する外国人のみなさんと日本人の交流の場面には、できるだけ日本… read more

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  • japanese literature
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2. The True Story of Ah Q

By: Lu Xun , 魯迅

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense an… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"It seemed to him that in this world probably it was the fate of everybody at some time to have his head cut off."

-Lu Xun, The True Story of Ah Q

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3. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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4. Twinkle Twinkle

By: Kaori Ekuni

3.67

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

They got married ten days ago. They haven't had sex yet and they don't intend to. As it turned out… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
"Mutsukiiii!"

-Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

"Age-old customs were quite romantic in her opinion."

-Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

"Everything will be fine once you have your first child."

-Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

"And besides, it’ll be cool if his wife and his boyfriend visited him at the same time."

-Kaori Ekuni, Twinkle Twinkle

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5. The Eighth Day

By: Mitsuyo Kakuta , Margaret Mitsutani

4.08

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1985. Kiwako is an ordinary office worker, in love with a married man, until an unwante… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
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6. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • japanese literature
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

8. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
Cover of Fires on the Plain by Shōhei Ōoka, Ivan Morris

10. Fires on the Plain

By: Shōhei Ōoka , Ivan Morris

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is out… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
Cover of Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1) by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

11. Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue … read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
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12. In a Grove

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

"In a Grove" (Sou noZhong , Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, first appearing… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • japanese literature

13. In the Miso Soup

By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
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14. The Tell-Tale Heart

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Byron Glaser , None

4.24

Format: 31 pages, Library Binding

A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man. In this cl… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"would a madman have been so wise as this?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

"Basta ya de fingir, malvados! -aullé-. ¡Confieso que lo maté! ¡Levanten esos tablones! ¡Ahí… ahí! ¡Donde está latiendo su horrible corazón!"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

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15. Naomi

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Anthony H. Chambers

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man's obsession and a brilliant reckoni… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature

16. Confessions

By: Kanae Minato , Stephen Snyder

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge. After an engagement that ended in t… read more

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17. The Setting Sun

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more

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18. A Personal Matter

By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as on… read more

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19. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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20. The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel About Family and Destiny

By: Jostein Gaarder , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

Hans Thomas and his father set out on a car trip through Europe, from Norway to Greece--the birthpl… read more

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21. A Country Doctor

By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane… read more

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22. The Blind Owl

By: Sadegh Hedayat , D.P. Costello

3.97

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale o… read more

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  • fiction
"افكار پوچ! از هر حقيقتی بيشتر مرا شكنجه ميكند"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهایی است که روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد ومیتراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"در زندگی زخمهايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می خورد و می تراشد"

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

"از دور ریختن عقایدی که به من تلقین شده بود، آرامش مخصوصی در خودم حس می‌کردم."

-Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl

23. The Makioka Sisters

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a wa… read more

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24. The Guest Cat

By: Takashi Hiraide , Eric Selland

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the ac… read more

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25. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

Cover of The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo

26. The Human Chair

By: Edogawa Rampo

4.32

Format: 20 pages, Paperback

A short story about a chair that holds a dark secret. read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • japanese literature
"Could it be that in the end, we Japanese are unable to feel true love for any except our fellow Japanese?"

-Edogawa Rampo, The Human Chair

Cover of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

27. Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

3.69

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,0… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
"A convenience store is a world of sound."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

Cover of Cytryna by Motojirō Kajii

28. Cytryna

By: Motojirō Kajii

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Antologia opowiadań nieznanego w Polsce japońskiego modernisty, którego krótką karierę pisarską prz… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • japanese literature
Cover of Takasebune by Ōgai Mori

29. Takasebune

By: Ōgai Mori

3.99

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

明治・大正期の文学者、森鴎外の短編小説。初出は「中央公論」[1916(大正5)年1日。弟殺しの罪で島送りとなる喜助。彼を高瀬舟で護送する同心の羽田庄兵衛。同心は罪人である喜助の晴れやかな態度に疑問を… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • japanese literature

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