6 must-read fantasy books like Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

If you liked the fantasy plot in Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Similar categories in Durian Sukegawa's Sweet Bean Paste book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• japanese literature
• japan

Similar categories in Sōsuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• fantasy
• japan
• audiobook

"But time is merciless in its passing."

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis."

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"In today's world, a lot of what should be obvious has been turned upside down. The weak are used as stepping stones and those in need are taken advantage of. People just caught up in this pattern. No…"

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

"Being able to express shallow words of sympathy in a sweet voice doesn't make someone a caring, compassionate soul. What's important is the ability to have empathy for another human being--to be able…"

-Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

Similar categories in Lee Mi-ye's DallerGut Dream Department Store book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• fantasy
• audiobook

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Mizuki Tsujimura's Lonely Castle in the Mirror book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• japanese literature
• fiction
• asian literature
• contemporary
• fantasy
• japan

"In another world, we were already friends."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Similar categories in Satoshi Yagisawa's Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's Heaven book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• japanese literature
• fiction
• asian literature
• contemporary
• fantasy
• japan
• audiobook

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"They say that when a man is dying, the first name that comes to mind is his first love."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"Throughout history we’ve given birth to new things, only to lose the old way of doing things."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"Yeah, but just being alive doesn't mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• asian literature
• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Similar categories in Hisashi Kashiwai's The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• asian literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Similar categories in Makoto Shinkai's She and Her Cat: Stories book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• asian literature
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

"I recalled that rainy day when I'd rescued Chobi-or so I'd arrogantly believed at the time. Actually, I was the one who'd been rescued."

-Makoto Shinkai, She and Her Cat: Stories

Similar categories in Hiro Arikawa's The Travelling Cat Chronicles book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• japanese literature
• japan
• fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"Guddo rakku!"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Because it was only natural to feel sad."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Similar categories in Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2) book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• time travel
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• japanese literature
• fantasy
• japan
• audiobook

"Life, too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow..."

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"Standing there together next to the tracks as the trains roared and whooshed past for what seemed like for ever, Kinuyo hugged Kazu tightly and stroked her head until she stopped crying. As time pass…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"La señora Kōtake estaba impactada porque su propio cuerpo también estaba inmerso en esa especie de vaivén, fundiéndose con el vapor del café. Cuando se dio cuenta, todo lo que había a su alrededor es…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

"If I had led a sad life as a result of my sister's death, then it would have been as if her death had caused it. So, I thought I mustn't allow that to happen. I swore to myself that I would make sure…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

Similar categories in Hiro Arikawa's The Goodbye Cat book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• asian literature
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

Similar categories in Baek Se-hee's I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• asian literature
• audiobook
• contemporary

"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• short stories
• japanese literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• japan
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sohn Won-Pyung's Almond book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• asian literature
• audiobook
• fiction
• contemporary

"We have to be tougher in this tough world."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"Can the word "love" be thrown around so casually like that?"

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"I drifted off to sleep only at daybreak when the sky turned sapphire."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

"You're basically a blank canvas. Better to fill it up with good things rather than bad things."

-Sohn Won-Pyung, Almond

Similar categories in Sanaka Hiiragi's The Lantern of Lost Memories book and Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

• magical realism
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• japanese literature
• fantasy
• japan