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books your pretentious friend has heard of

Chain-Gang All-Stars

King: A Life

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Chain-Gang All-Stars

King: A Life

aanhpi book recs

by ellies.encyclopedia

spotlighting some incredible books by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors

The Bandit Queens

Jade City

You Know What You Did

The Manor of Dreams

The Bandit Queens

Jade City

women in translation ♀ °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

ladies love to write all around the world!

Tender Is the Flesh

Paradais

Earthlings

The Wall

Tender Is the Flesh

Paradais

books set in Japan / by Japanese authors

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

The Pachinko Parlour

The Decagon House Murders

The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

The Pachinko Parlour

Little Japan

by RosieHeadaches

This is my Japanese literature list: Little Japan. Most of these books sit on my bookshelf in my little corner of the world. Enjoy!

Diary of a Void

Breasts and Eggs

The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Strange Weather in Tokyo

Diary of a Void

Breasts and Eggs

Japan Booksellers’ Award

Winners and nominees of the Japan Booksellers’ Award (Honya Taisho) translated into English

*Not listed in year or sequence

The Housekeeper and the Professor

The Devotion of Suspect X

1Q84

Tsubaki Stationery Store

The Housekeeper and the Professor

The Devotion of Suspect X

Translated East Asain Lit

Everything from Murasaki to Murakami. Get the best of it here~

Butter

If Cats Disappeared from the World

The Memory Police

Counterattacks at Thirty

Butter

If Cats Disappeared from the World

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