Best Japanese Fiction

1
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,178 members
42 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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2
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō
3,796 members
101 reviews
4
2 Members
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3
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
1,661 members
67 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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4
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,900 members
370 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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5
Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
3,056 members
197 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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6
The Boy in the Earth
by Fuminori Nakamura
57 members
1 review
½ 3.3
2 Members
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7
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
8,952 members
354 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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8
Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel
by Ryū Murakami
270 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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9
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3,047 members
111 reviews
½ 3.6
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10
Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
2,776 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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11
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
2,509 members
38 reviews
4.1
Member
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12
Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
796 members
36 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Aug3Zimm
13
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
by Akinari Ueda
465 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
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14
The Samurai
by Shūsaku Endō
810 members
11 reviews
4
Member
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15
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
by Mizuki Tsujimura
428 members
15 reviews
4
Member
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16
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity: A Novel
by Erika Kobayashi
29 members
4.8
Member
Aug3Zimm
17
Kokoro
by Natsume Soseki
2,717 members
66 reviews
4
Member
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18
Seventeen
by Hideo Yokoyama
162 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
Aug3Zimm
19
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kōbō Abe
3,087 members
66 reviews
3.8
Member
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20
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
4,863 members
126 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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21
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
3,316 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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22
Woman Running in the Mountains
by Yūko Tsushima
158 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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23
The Memory Police
by Yoko Ogawa
2,171 members
94 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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24
Rashomon and Other Stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1,393 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
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25
Naoko
by Keigo Higashino
219 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
Aug3Zimm
26
Villain
by Shūichi Yoshida
350 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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27
The Sea of Fertility
by Yukio Mishima
225 members
1 review
½ 4.6
Member
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28
Lady Joker, Volume One
by Kaoru Takamura
177 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
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29
The Hole
by Hiroko Oyamada
278 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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30
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
18,101 members
467 reviews
4.1
31
The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
2,619 members
204 reviews
3.8
32
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,603 members
42 reviews
3.8
33
The Box Man
by Kōbō Abe
977 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
34
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
16,420 members
478 reviews
4.2
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Explanations
Cecrow : Not Japanese Fiction