magic realism with a hint of real-life hardships making you appreciate life a little better
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last updated December, 2025
Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat
Kim Jiyun
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
Lee Mi-ye
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino
Marigold Mind Laundry
Jungeun Yun
The Library of Heartbeats
Laura Imai Messina
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa
If Cats Disappeared from the World
Genki Kawamura
One Hundred Flowers
The Blanket Cats
Kiyoshi Shigematsu
The Second Chance Convenience Store
Kim Ho-yeon
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #2)
Syou Ishida
Weâll Prescribe You a Cat (Weâll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Takuya Asakura
Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #5)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)
Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen (Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen, #1)
Yuta Takahashi
The Menu of Happiness (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #3)
Hisashi Kashiwai
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)
The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
Satoshi Yagisawa
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The Cat Who Saved Books
SĆsuke Natsukawa
The Convenience Store by the Sea
Sonoko Machida
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Michiko Aoyama
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