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my favourite genre, these books are so much fun and more and more are being added all the time If anyone has any questions about any book I will try to help. I have read most of them and have reference books on the history of Japanese crime fiction.

TIME’s list of “the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books” running all the way back to the 1800s

Mystery Thriller titles that were originally in Japanese but have been translated into English.

mysteries and thrillers in which the victim high-key sucks. rest in pieces, shitheads! love to hate 'em, we will not miss them. disclaimer: while the list creator is a certified hater, in no way is the list creator or pagebound condoning or encouraging violence, even in situations when that person does, in fact, suck.

A collection of mystery books with settings from around the world. Usually written by someone from that area but not always.

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

All the books chosen by Booksandlala for the Literally Dead Book club.

Hopefully his other books will be translated into English soon. His works will always be remembered🎐

Mystery books for case crackers

Fiction books set in Japan

Open to recs!

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

*Not listed in year or sequence

These are the books that were mentioned by V in his most recent Rolling Stones interview. he named 2 authors and also gave 1 title of a book. The list is anything written by the two authors he mentioned, and the only other book title.

Keigo Higashino books

collection of murder mystery books that introduced the killer right away and you will know how they crazily and mind-blowing-ly tried to get away from murder

let me know if you know some books i can add!

some of these make you say #couplegoals. others, you'd rather experience vicariously. either way, you can't look away because of how well written they are.

Some Translated Literature book recommendation Thriller, Drama, Suspense