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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,414 members
372 reviews
4.2
13 Members
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2
The Tale of Genji
by Shikibu Murasaki
5,317 members
51 reviews
3.9
11 Members
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3
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
3,153 members
84 reviews
½ 3.7
11 Members
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4
Silence
by Shūsaku Endō
3,605 members
95 reviews
4
8 Members
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5
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,091 members
42 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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6
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburō Ōe
1,806 members
36 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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7
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
1,085 members
16 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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8
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
17,499 members
473 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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9
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
15,674 members
356 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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10
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,181 members
17 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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11
A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
7,560 members
137 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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12
After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
4,009 members
107 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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13
Kusamakura
by Natsume Soseki
609 members
12 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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14
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
2,483 members
41 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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15
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,656 members
59 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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16
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kōbō Abe
2,948 members
65 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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17
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzō Okakura
2,705 members
66 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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18
House of the Sleeping Beauties
by Yasunari Kawabata
549 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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19
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
2,424 members
35 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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20
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
4,649 members
120 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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21
The Master of Go
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,234 members
36 reviews
4
5 Members
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22
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
1,726 members
40 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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23
The Box Man
by Kōbō Abe
933 members
18 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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24
After Dark
by Haruki Murakami
6,727 members
214 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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25
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
2,843 members
55 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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26
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami
5,733 members
117 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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27
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
1,571 members
59 reviews
½ 3.4
5 Members
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28
Dance Dance Dance
by Haruki Murakami
5,824 members
94 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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29
Black Rain
by Masuji Ibuse
853 members
29 reviews
4
4 Members
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30
The Sea of Fertility
by Yukio Mishima
213 members
1 review
½ 4.6
4 Members
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31
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
4,618 members
72 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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32
The Strange Library
by Haruki Murakami
2,020 members
139 reviews
½ 3.4
4 Members
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33
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
6,605 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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34
Light and Darkness
by Natsume Sōseki
158 members
2 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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35
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
15,806 members
471 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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36
Some Prefer Nettles
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1,034 members
23 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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37
1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation
by Anonymous
92 members
2 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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38
Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,202 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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39
Shipwrecks
by Akira Yoshimura
548 members
30 reviews
4
3 Members
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40
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
by Kenzaburō Ōe
940 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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41
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
by Matsuo Bashō
1,297 members
24 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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42
Botchan
by Natsume Sōseki
995 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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43
Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
1,293 members
37 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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44
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
786 members
13 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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45
Runaway Horses
by Yukio Mishima
1,222 members
19 reviews
4
3 Members
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46
The Temple of Dawn
by Yukio Mishima
1,020 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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47
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
4,357 members
208 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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48
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
2,051 members
36 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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49
Rashomon and Other Stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1,316 members
20 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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50
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
2,299 members
47 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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51
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen
by Robert Aitken
149 members
2 reviews
4
2 Members
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52
Masks
by Fumiko Enchi
494 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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53
Death in Midsummer and Other stories
by Yukio Mishima
834 members
14 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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54
Grass for His Pillow
by Lian Hearn
2,836 members
38 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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55
Almost Transparent Blue
by Ryū Murakami
913 members
30 reviews
3.1
3 Members
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56
After the Banquet
by Yukio Mishima
619 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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57
The Key
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
768 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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58
The Guest Cat
by Takashi Hiraide
1,093 members
62 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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59
Kappa
by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
322 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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60
Before the Dawn
by Shimazaki Toson
43 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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61
A Drifting Life
by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
432 members
17 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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62
Quicksand
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
503 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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63
Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
1,919 members
53 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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64
1Q84: Books 1 and 2
by Haruki Murakami
1,965 members
76 reviews
4
2 Members
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65
1Q84 Book 3
by Haruki Murakami
1,701 members
63 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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66
The Ruined Map
by Kōbō Abe
622 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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67
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
by Lady Sarashina
466 members
9 reviews
3.9
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
68
Kokoro
by Natsume Soseki
2,572 members
62 reviews
4
2 Members
scottd, acceptance
69
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
by Sei Shonagon
2,647 members
41 reviews
4
2 Members
henkl, JuliaMaria
70
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
562 members
17 reviews
4
2 Members
RBeffa, acceptance
71
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa
by Robert Hass
634 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, bicyclepunk
72
Across the Nightingale Floor
by Lian Hearn
4,615 members
125 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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73
The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
999 members
16 reviews
3.9
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
74
The narrow road to the Deep North : and other travel sketches
by Basho Matsuo
109 members
2 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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75
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2,168 members
91 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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76
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity: A Novel
by Erika Kobayashi
23 members
4.8
Member
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77
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
4,343 members
80 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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78
Self Portraits
by Osamu Dazai
85 members
½ 4.5
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
79
Hōjōki
by Kamo no Chomei
176 members
6 reviews
4
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
81
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
by Haruki Murakami
442 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
blackdove07, bicyclepunk
82
Tony Takitani (Individual Short Story)
by Haruki Murakami
107 members
½ 3.6
2 Members
blackdove07, bicyclepunk
83
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
35,665 members
554 reviews
4
5 Members
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84
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
by Donald Keene
280 members
1 review
½ 3.6
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
85
Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
762 members
33 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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86
Tales from the Cafe
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
614 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
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87
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
by Murasaki Shikibu
456 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
88
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
by Ivan Morris
567 members
12 reviews
4
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
89
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
by Kenzaburō Ōe
591 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
90
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics)
by Michitsuna no Haha
317 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
91
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
by Yukio Mishima
382 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
92
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
by Geoffrey Bownas
300 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
93
A history of Japanese literature
by W. G. Aston
30 members
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
94
The Tale of Genji, Vol. II
by Murasaki Shikibu
87 members
½ 3.6
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
95
The Tale of Genji, Vol. I
by Shikibu Murasaki
163 members
2 reviews
3.9
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
96
A Quiet Life
by Kenzaburō Ōe
306 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
97
A Treasury of Asian Literature: Arabia, India, China, and Japan
by John D. Yohannan
259 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
98
The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
by Ivan Morris
206 members
13 reviews
4.1
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
99
Deep River
by Shūsaku Endō
592 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
100
The Translations of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound
157 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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