Recs if you like The Lonesome Bodybuilder...

Japanese Akutagawa Literary Award Winners that have been translated into English. For the full list of recipients, see the Bungakushinko website or Wikipedia (links in comment).

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 'aims to address the gender imbalance in translated literature' and is open to works of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, and fiction for children or young adults. Only works written by a woman (original authors, not the translators) are eligible. All works longlisted since the prize began in 2017 are collected on this list.

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

Natalie Naudus has narrated hundreds of audiobooks so bear with me as I try to get them all on this list!

Japanese literary fiction by prestigious authors who have proved themselves through the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes. I've included significant historical fiction as well.

Short story collections with strange elements, scifi/fantasy, or magical realism to leave you unsettled and wanting more.. or maybe just wanting to get away

Collections and anthologies!

💜 yarnandbooks

these are some of my favorites but leave recs in comments please!!

get a tiny taste of layered, intricate topics with these subversive short stories and nuanced novellas! all genres included!