Recs if you like Snow Country...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!

Awarded annually to an author from any country, since 1901.

This list contains popular books from all the award winning authors.

Awards from 1901 -2025

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

Every book or author mentioned in Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” in one convenient place

A list to deepen one’s understanding of cross-literary conversation from a 21st century author.

I created this list in the spirit of one of the central themes of the novel, that being that literature is a conversation through space and time. Writing is a kind of time travel, if only just to the future, and reading is one to the past.

I’m trying to live more in tune with the seasons this year, so here are some non-Christmasy book recs for December through February.

Novels set in the countryside, which are comfy, connected, scenic and feels like home, you wish to live there❤️( I'm trying to collect stories from across the world, let me know your favourites, I'm happy to add as well)

Surreal stories for a weirder winter

i wish hwang hyunjin from skz was oomf

books with less than 200 pages

cold toes, hot cocoa, snow is falling outside your window

Winter reads tbr. Mix genres

1. A work of science fiction or fantasy from before 1980 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
2. A non-fiction book about science or mathematics The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3. A novel by a Latin American author By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño or The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
4. A novel by an East Asian author Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
5. A classical drama or epic The Epic of Gilgamesh
6. A romance Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
7. A work of 20th-century philosophy Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
8. One of these books that was called a ‘dating red flag’ All about love by Bell Hooks
9. A book about a religion you’ve never been a part of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
10. A classic children’s book Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne
11. A memoir or biography of a woman The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen