12 best-selling short stories books like Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino

Cover of Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino

Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is …

"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

If you liked the short stories plot in Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura

1. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's This is Amiko, Do You Copy? book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • japan
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

Cover of Nipponia Nippon by Kazushige Abe

2. Nipponia Nippon

By: Kazushige Abe

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Il diciassettenne protagonista Haruo vive in cittadina di provincia nel nord del Giappone. È un ado… read more

Similar categories in Kazushige Abe's Nipponia Nippon book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • japanese literature
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
  • japan
Cover of Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami

3. 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

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's Dragon Palace book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short stories
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • japan
Cover of Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino

4. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short story collection
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • japan
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

Cover of The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

5. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • adult
  • japan
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

Cover of Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

6. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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7. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca

8. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

Cover of The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

9. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's The Pale House Devil book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

Similar categories in Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

11. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more

Similar categories in Natsuko Imamura's Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short stories
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • japan
Cover of Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe

12. Harlequin Butterfly

By: Toh EnJoe

3.37

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of l… read more

Similar categories in Toh EnJoe's Harlequin Butterfly book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • japan
  • japanese literature
Cover of Supplication by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

13. Supplication

By: Nour Abi-Nakhoul

2.67

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a change… read more

Similar categories in Nour Abi-Nakhoul's Supplication book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper

14. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

15. Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories by Sarah Coolidge

16. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Cannibals by Shin'ya Tanaka

17. Cannibals

By: Shin'ya Tanaka

2.92

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-y… read more

Similar categories in Shin'ya Tanaka's Cannibals book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • fiction
  • horror
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Ao Omae

18. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories

By: Ao Omae

3.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the w… read more

Similar categories in Ao Omae's People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • short stories
  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • japan
Cover of The Third Love by Hiromi Kawakami

19. The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has … read more

Similar categories in Hiromi Kawakami's The Third Love book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

20. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Myrrh by Polly Hall

21. Myrrh

By: Polly Hall

3.18

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to s… read more

Similar categories in Polly Hall's Myrrh book and Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

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3.63

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3.31

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3.49

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3.63

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