Subject: Japan › Social life and customs

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• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (31,118 copies)
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (5,502 copies)
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (4,278 copies)
• The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (3,903 copies)
• After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (3,410 copies)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco (3,252 copies)
• Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb (2,069 copies)
• The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon (2,043 copies)
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura (2,016 copies)
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima (1,767 copies)
• Ring by Koji Suzuki (1,187 copies)
• The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby (1,055 copies)
• Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (1,054 copies)
• The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata (1,016 copies)
• Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (978 copies)
• The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese… by Ruth Benedict (928 copies)
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (695 copies)
• Death in Midsummer and Other stories by Yukio Mishima (664 copies)
• Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton (653 copies)
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (613 copies)
• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburō Ōe (535 copies)
• Seven Japanese Tales by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (501 copies)
• Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler (453 copies)
• Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World by Lesley Downer (442 copies)
• Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura (436 copies)
• House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (436 copies)
• As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina (359 copies)
• Tales of Old Japan by A. B. Mitford (317 copies)
• Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo (316 copies)
• Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima (312 copies)
• Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden (301 copies)
• Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler (294 copies)
• The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata (289 copies)
• Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse (269 copies)
• A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (259 copies)
• You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting (258 copies)
• Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller (248 copies)
• Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches… by T. R. Reid (244 copies)
• Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century… by Ihara Saikaku (241 copies)
• Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in… by John David Morley (225 copies)
• In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (224 copies)
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird (211 copies)
• Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost… by Michael Zielenziger (203 copies)
• Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tuttle Classics of… by Charles J. Dunn (201 copies)
• Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction by Alfred Birnbaum (197 copies)
• Culture Shock! Japan by Rex Shelley (180 copies)
• Beyond the Curve by Kōbō Abe (171 copies)
• A Day in Japan by Daniel Moreton (166 copies)
• The Laws of Evening: Stories by Mary Yukari Waters (161 copies)
• The Diamond Chariot by Boris Akunin (152 copies)

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