1Q84
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati…
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1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. The Stranger
By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None
4.02
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more
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- fiction
"It is better to burn than to disappear."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"After awhile you could get used to anything."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."-Albert Camus, The Stranger
3. The Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.14
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more
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- fiction
"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق میکرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آنوقت هیچکدام از این کثافتکاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمیآمد."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
4. Pachinko
By: Min Jin Lee
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealth… read more
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- fiction
- japan
"A woman’s lot is to suffer."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"No one is clean. Living makes you dirty."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Life makes you pay...everybody pays something"-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
5. Kitchen
By: Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, t… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Never Let Me Go
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance -… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 1Q84
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati… read more
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- magical realism
- japanese literature
- fiction
- science fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- japan
8. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.08
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
9. Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle: A Reader's Guide
By: None
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is an excellent guide to Haruki Murakami's extraordinary novel. It features a biography of the… read more
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10. No Longer Human
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- japan
"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
11. A Little Life
By: Hanya Yanagihara
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're… read more
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12. One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.12
Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more
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- magical realism
- fantasy
- fiction
"Cease, cows, life is short."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"There is always something left to love."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"Children inherit their parents' madness."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"بدأ يدرك كم يحب فى الواقع الأشخاص الذين كرههم أكثر من سواهم ."-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
13. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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14. The Three Witches and The Master
By: Max Nowaz
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Where’s my uncle?"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master
15. 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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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
16. 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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- magical realism
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- 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
17. 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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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
18. Klara and the Sun
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.75
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Memory Police
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.72
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more
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- magical realism
- japanese literature
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
- japan
"No one can erase the stories!"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"Few people here have any need of novels"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
20. Breasts and Eggs
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.86
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting e… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Then there are the real bastards, like my ex,"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"Mi sentivo come un essere privato della carne e della pelle e ridotto a sole ossa. Un carapace enorme completamente cavo."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"We could worry about tomorrow when it came. What mattered most right now is how we would spend the remainder of today, even if it was half over."-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
"I could see people all around me, but I almost felt like nobody could see me. I heard a train go by, rumbling down the tracks, drawing a thick line between the world and my experience. I was getting …"-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
21. Heaven
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.80
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-y… read more
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- japan
- japanese literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Karena kau selalu dilukai, kau sungguh-sungguh memahami seperti apakah orang terluka."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"You think about how other people feel. You're so kind. It makes sense. Because we're always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
"People are always dying. It's a perfect truth. No matter how we live our lives, we all die, sooner or later. In which case, living is really just waiting to die."-Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
