Recs if you like A Perfect Day to Be Alone...
Badge Gremlins
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.
🏆Akutagawa Prize Winners🏆
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).
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Japanese fiction to read on the train
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
books set in Japan / by Japanese authors
Short Reads
Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.
have you ever felt as if you don't belong anywhere
...and just want to live in a place where no one knows you? - one million yen girl (2008)
books about loneliness, melancholy, alienation, and feeling adrift
Translated Lit Essentials
My favorite translated works and books I want to get to!
Short Books
To sprint through to your reading goal
Novellas
When time is running, but I need to read a quick book.. or two!
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