Recs if you like The Nakano Thrift Shop...

A list of cozy fiction for when the world is heavy and the Book Club book is too much.

Books are cozy based on other lists or cute-munity reccs. Your milage may vary.

An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.

japanese books i've read or been meaning to read

books that capture the whimsical charm of beloved studio ghibli films, while grounding you in the beauty and reality of the world around us. note: These books are not necessarily cozy, much like the films themselves are not always comforting.

Books about our mundane jobs. We'll explore: our role in society, conformity, routine, labor, and more. Leave your recs!

If you need to read books that feel like a warm hug, this is for you!

I can’t read Japanese fiction in their original language, only translated so I guess aim at the mercy of translators and their interpretation of these works.