Recs if you like Murder at the Black Cat Café...
black cat crossing
it may be months away from halloween but it’s never too early to show love and support for the often over-stigmatized black cat! these books, as you might have guessed, all include at least one black cat or are about black cats :)
Japanese crime novels
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.
The Cat Love Club
Cats, cats and more cats! Welcome to The Cat Love Club where we curl up with books featuring (suprise) cats, the perfect reading companions 🐈 List credit to my own cat because she is inspirational 😩✨️
Asian Authors
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.
Lost in Translation (and Loving It)
Translated fiction
japanese detectives
Seishi Yokomizo's Translated Works
A list of Seishi Yokomizo's Detective Kindaichi series as they are translated to English.
Bubble, Bubble, Toil, & Trouble
Halloween is cool. This book is for books with that Halloweentown, Hocus Pocus, & maybe even Scream vibes. From cozy to horror, this list will hopefully have something fr everybody.
East Asian Books
A list to help those who aspire to read from authors outside the typical areas. I will be creating different list for different regions. I will also list the countries currently found in the list. Be sure to check out the other lists! Note: The countries are not perfect as some countries are classified differently, so I did my best.
Current Countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
My reading slump did my reading goal dirty
Playing the catch up game!
Last year my slump hit me hard so here’s a collection of quick read to help you catch up or just town over the line in time!
It’s a mix but promise the all pack a punch! All <270 pages 🥳
Cats cats cats
Meow
books about books and cats
Love both topics, it deserve its own little shelf
one cat just leads to another
Cats in Japan
Books featuring cats set in Japan!
Japanese murder mysteries!
Will probably contain books mostly from the shin honkaku movement, as that's what I've read the most of XD
These have all been translated to English!
bitches i do not own but NEED to read
bitch i did not realize how many photos of books i had in my phone gawdamn
Asian fiction because I adore it
Why read books written originally in your own language when you could ✨not✨
Oshkosh Silent Book Club: March 2026 Reads
Books read by Oshkosh readers in March!
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