Books similar like Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts

The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen (Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen, #1)

Your table awaits at the Chibineko Kitchen, where a soul-nourishing meal in the company of the resident kitten will transport you back in time to reunite with departed loved ones—for fans of Before th…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Bookshop Woman

A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.

Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recen…

Buy this book on Amazon

I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2

Buy this book on Amazon

Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major …

Buy this book on Amazon

Butter

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.

There are two things that I can simply not tolerate:…

Buy this book on Amazon

Goodnight Tokyo

A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy.

Set over several nights, between the hours of 1:…

Buy this book on Amazon

Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop

For lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, a new book about the beauty of humble objects, the power of writing, and reconnecting with those you have lost.

Write your s…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ms Ice Sandwich

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.

Ms Ice Sandwich seems to lack social graces, but our young narrator is totally smitten with her. He is in awe of he…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Beggar Student

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.

A fictional thirty-something writer named Osamu Dazai has just mail…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mongrel

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing both her heritage and her growing love for her best friend Fran.

Yuki leaves the Japanese coun…

Buy this book on Amazon

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for o…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Trunk

Read the pageturning Korean feminist thriller for fans of KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982 and CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN – soon to be a major Netflix Original TV Series starring Gong Yoo from SQUID GAMES and Seo H…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Nakano Thrift Shop

From the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this funny, heartwarming story about love, life, and human relationships that features a delightfully offbeat cast of characters.

Objects for sale at t…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner has Kindaichi arriv…

Buy this book on Amazon

Four Seasons in Japan

Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon …

Buy this book on Amazon

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our world

No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant p…

Buy this book on Amazon

Marigold Mind Laundry

Dünyanın En Sıra Dışı, En Güzel Çamaşırhanesi Kapılarını Açtı

Geçmişteki Pişmanlıklarınızı Temizliyor,
Acı Veren Anıları Siliyoruz.
Mutluluğunuz İçin Buruşmuş Kalbinizdeki
Kırışıklıkları Ütüleyebilir,…

Buy this book on Amazon

Snow Country

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

At an isolated …

Buy this book on Amazon

I Went To See My Father

Buy this book on Amazon

Counterattacks at Thirty

Buy this book on Amazon

Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts

Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts similar books