Lion Cross Point
By: Masatsugu Ono
3.58
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When 10-year-old Takeru arrives at his mother's home village in the middle of a scorching summer, h…
Want to Read $ 9.99"His mother’s whisper was like blades of grass, rustling, chafed by the wind. He tried to remember the expression on her face as she spoke, but he couldn’t. Wanting to recall her voice more clearly, he closed his eyes, and when he did so he saw grass—dry, sad, tired."-Masatsugu Ono, Lion Cross Point
"His mother’s whisper was like blades of grass, rustling, chafed by the wind. He tried to remember the expression on her face as she spoke, but he couldn’t. Wanting to recall her voice more clearly, he closed his eyes, and when he did so he saw grass—dry, sad, tired."-Masatsugu Ono, Lion Cross Point
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1. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
By: Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a myste… read more
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"Art is not to copy the work of another; real art exists only in difference."-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
"I'm a huge fan of mysteries; in fact, they're almost an addiction. If a week goes by without reading a mystery, I suffer withdrawal symptoms. Then I wander around like I'm sleepwalking and wake up in…"-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
2. Spring Garden
By: Tomoka Shibasaki , Polly Barton
3.27
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope'He'd co… read more
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"Avoiding bother was Taro's governing principle. It wasn't that he was a stick-in-the-mud. It was just that, rather than putting himself out in order to get the more pleasing or interesting things he …"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
"His home town as it existed in his memory seemed distant to him, like something that belonged to another person. It was almost as though he'd mistaken a place he'd seen on TV or in a film for a thing…"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
3. The Tattoo Murder Case
By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more
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4. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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5. Bone Gap
By: Laura Ruby
3.89
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps--gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disa… read more
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6. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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7. Memoirs of a Polar Bear
By: Susan Bernofsky , Yōko Tawada
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Memoirs of a Polar Bearstars three generations of talented writers and performers--who happen to be… read more
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8. The Twilight Years
By: Sawako Ariyoshi , Mildred Tahara
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Akiko is a working wife and mother of a teenage son. When her mother-in-law suddenly dies of a stro… read more
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9. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
10. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
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"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
11. The Cabinet
By: Kim Un-Su
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea’s most prestigious literary prize. Cabinet 1… read more
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"There are two types of lives people can live,' he said. 'The kind of life in which one writes in a diary every day, and the kind of life in which one doesn't. They're as different as a country with a…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
"I wonder if my lost time is rolling around somewhere. I could have loved someone with that time -- I could have done something beautiful for someone. But I've nothing to show for that lost time. No w…"-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet
12. 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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"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
13. Oval
By: Elvia Wilk
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to … read more
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"The audience sat on collapsible stool-like things made of folded recyclable cardboard that existed for no reason other than to not be normal chairs. To subvert “the chair."-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"the water of my race walks with O’Reilly soft touch absorbent infallible pro-aging bamboo follicles who will inherit the earth misty plum [Gong noise] when your hair is on, you’re on fire"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"But if someone decides that our heating and cooling are unnatural, what’s next? Then someone will decide that clean water is fake, and then someone will decide that LEDs are fake, and then someone wi…"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
"That's how it was: boys got to believe their private lives were extricable from their politics–I read feminist theory so it's irrelevant that my girlfriend's career is subordinate to my own; it has n…"-Elvia Wilk, Oval
14. Dragon Palace
By: Hiromi Kawakami
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 From the bestselling author of Strange Weather i… read more
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15. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
16. Out There
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4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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17. The North Light
By: Hideo Yokoyama
3.82
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a pri… read more
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18. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
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Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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19. Ghost Music
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3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative note… read more
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"What brought me a touch of comfort was knowing not that my husband was there, asleep on the other side of the wall, but that there was a stranger, across the street, still awake and listening to the …"-An Yu, Ghost Music
20. Docile
By: K.M. Szpara
3.42
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
There is no consent under capitalism Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wea… read more
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"It's okay to hate yourself and it's okay to enjoy yourself. Sometimes."-K.M. Szpara, Docile
"I didn't bare my feelings so you could explain why they were wrong. I wanted your support."-K.M. Szpara, Docile
"My forehead rests against his, trapping beads of water between us. Then, before I can object, he kisses me with soft, gentle lips. I pull back. 'I didn't say you could do that.' 'Not out loud,' he sa…"-K.M. Szpara, Docile
21. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
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"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
22. Lute
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3.62
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel a… read more
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23. Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)
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3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, t… read more
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24. Colorful
By: Eto Mori
4.01
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A beloved and bestselling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a seco… read more
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25. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
By: Richard Flanagan
3.71
Format: 240 pages, ebook
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three chil… read more
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26. I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2
By: Baek Se-hee
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif.… read more
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27. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
28. 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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29. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
By: Cho yeeun
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more
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"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
30. We'll Prescribe You a Cat
By: Syou Ishida
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more
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31. Lion Cross Point
By: Masatsugu Ono
3.58
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
When 10-year-old Takeru arrives at his mother's home village in the middle of a scorching summer, h… read more
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"His mother’s whisper was like blades of grass, rustling, chafed by the wind. He tried to remember the expression on her face as she spoke, but he couldn’t. Wanting to recall her voice more clearly, h…"-Masatsugu Ono, Lion Cross Point
