Recs if you like Kokoro...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

These books are mentioned in the book The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

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

created by a western gal — trying my best but might have inaccuracies

A list of books to discover the history of Japanese literature. It begins with the Kojiki, the oldest surviving mythological chronicle of Japan, and includes key classics such as The Tale of Genji, often considered the world’s first psychological novel, Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, and Akutagawa’s short stories.

yearning with a little bit of melancholy

Every book mentioned in Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murukami

books that capture cultures from around the world (through fiction and non fiction)

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