A Once-Perfect Day For Bananafish (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 12)
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition
Mieko Kawakami invites us to revisit one of J. D. Salinger's classic short story most beloved short…
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1. Sputnik Sweetheart
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.83
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more
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- fiction
- japanese literature
- japan
"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Would you walk away from Omelas?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
3. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
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- short stories
- fiction
5. Hardboiled & Hard Luck
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- japanese literature
- japan
6. The Passion
By: Jeanette Winterson
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more
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- fiction
7. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
8. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
9. A Perfect Day for Bananafish
By: J.D. Salinger
4.70
Format: 84 pages,
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the Janu… read more
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10. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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11. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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12. Bunny
By: Mona Awad
3.50
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more
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- fiction
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"-Mona Awad, Bunny
13. Earthlings
By: Sayaka Murata
3.60
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witc… read more
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- fiction
- japanese literature
- japan
"Sobreviver, haja o que houver."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"O senso comum é uma doença contagiosa e é difícil manter a infecção sozinho."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"I thought that when I grew up society would brainwash me, but it didn't work."-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
"Até quando eu teria de sobreviver? Será que algum dia poderia apenas viver e não sobreviver?"-Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
14. SPY×FAMILY 5
By: Tatsuya Endo
4.43
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
予知犬のボンドが家族に加わり、オペレーション〈梟（ストリクス）〉もフォージャー家もようやく軌道に乗ったと思われた――が、中間考査でアーニャ史上最大のピンチ!? 星（ステラ）と雷（トニト）をかけた波乱… read more
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- fiction
"Knowledge is a swole chihuahua?"-Tatsuya Endo, SPY×FAMILY 5
15. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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- fiction
"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
16. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
17. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- fiction
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
18. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
By: Ram V.
4.30
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more
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- fiction
"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
19. People From My Neighbourhood
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.53
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interl… read more
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- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
"Even the smallest hole is enough to send a balloon spiraling to the ground. The falsification of memory is like that. All it takes is one individual who remembers the truth, said Romi, for the whole …"-Hiromi Kawakami, People From My Neighbourhood
20. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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- asian literature
- fiction
- japanese literature
- japan
"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
21. A Once-Perfect Day For Bananafish (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 12)
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition
Mieko Kawakami invites us to revisit one of J. D. Salinger's classic short story most beloved short… read more
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- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
