Japanese Literature

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japanese literature
2
The Tale of Genji {complete}
by Murasaki Shikibu
6,307 members
66 reviews
3.9
12 Members
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3
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
3,985 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
11 Members
henkl, eromsted, kaixo, roby72, scottd, RBeffa, thecoroner, alex68, acceptance, bicyclepunk, FranzK72
4
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,538 members
48 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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5
Silence
by Shusaku Endo
4,515 members
112 reviews
4
9 Members
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7
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburō Ōe
2,118 members
38 reviews
3.8
9 Members
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8
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
20,754 members
530 reviews
4
8 Members
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9
The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,444 members
22 reviews
4.1
8 Members
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10
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
19,078 members
394 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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11
Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto
5,617 members
139 reviews
½ 3.7
8 Members
SqueakyChu, roby72, Simone2, alex68, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, bicyclepunk, paintwithnick
12
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
8,563 members
151 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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13
Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima
3,119 members
53 reviews
3.9
8 Members
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14
Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
2,927 members
44 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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15
After the Quake: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
4,528 members
120 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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16
Kusamakura
by Natsume Soseki
756 members
15 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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17
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,976 members
65 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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18
House of the Sleeping Beauties
by Yasunari Kawabata
662 members
24 reviews
½ 3.7
7 Members
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19
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzō Okakura
3,255 members
77 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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20
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,232 members
526 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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21
The Master of Go
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,422 members
41 reviews
4
5 Members
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22
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kōbō Abe
3,566 members
76 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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23
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
2,085 members
71 reviews
½ 3.4
6 Members
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24
The Box Man
by Kōbō Abe
1,152 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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25
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
2,102 members
48 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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26
After Dark
by Haruki Murakami
7,779 members
231 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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27
Black Rain
by Masuji Ibuse
963 members
27 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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28
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
3,704 members
68 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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29
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami
6,520 members
131 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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30
Shipwrecks
by Akira Yoshimura
638 members
34 reviews
4
4 Members
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31
Dance Dance Dance
by Haruki Murakami
6,580 members
102 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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32
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
by Matsuo Bashō
1,735 members
31 reviews
4
4 Members
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33
Rashomon and Other Stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
1,709 members
32 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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34
The Sea of Fertility
by Yukio Mishima
261 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
4 Members
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35
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
5,293 members
84 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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36
The Strange Library
by Haruki Murakami
2,606 members
151 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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37
In Praise of Shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,559 members
67 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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38
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
7,557 members
147 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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39
Light and Darkness: An Unfinished Novel
by Natsume Sōseki
185 members
2 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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40
1000 Poems from the Manyoshu
by Anonymous
115 members
2 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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41
Beauty and Sadness
by Yasunari Kawabata
1,445 members
36 reviews
3.8
4 Members
scottd, RBeffa, acceptance, bicyclepunk
42
Some Prefer Nettles
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
1,182 members
25 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
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43
No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
4,367 members
80 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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44
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
by Kenzaburō Ōe
1,069 members
32 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
SqueakyChu, kaixo, JuliaMaria
45
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
918 members
13 reviews
4.1
3 Members
RBeffa, acceptance, bicyclepunk
46
Botchan
by Natsume Sōseki
1,259 members
38 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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47
Kokoro
by Natsume Soseki
3,302 members
81 reviews
4
3 Members
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48
Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
1,458 members
43 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
SqueakyChu, kaixo, blackdove07
49
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
by Sei Shonagon
3,171 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
henkl, JuliaMaria
50
Runaway Horses
by Yukio Mishima
1,473 members
20 reviews
4.1
3 Members
Simone2, acceptance, bicyclepunk
51
The Temple of Dawn
by Yukio Mishima
1,222 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
Simone2, acceptance, bicyclepunk
52
1Q84: Books 1 and 2
by Haruki Murakami
2,287 members
83 reviews
4
2 Members
avatiakh, JuliaMaria
53
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
5,446 members
232 reviews
3.8
3 Members
blackdove07, RBeffa, JuliaMaria
54
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by Yukio Mishima
2,807 members
55 reviews
3.8
3 Members
henkl, acceptance, bicyclepunk
55
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen
by Robert Aitken
181 members
2 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, bicyclepunk
56
Strange Weather in Tokyo
by Hiromi Kawakami
1,685 members
67 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ajennell, JuliaMaria
57
The Sea and Poison
by Shusaku Endo
373 members
15 reviews
4
3 Members
stretch, acceptance, bicyclepunk
58
Masks
by Fumiko Enchi
612 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
SqueakyChu, acceptance, bicyclepunk
59
Grass for His Pillow
by Gillian Rubinstein
3,140 members
42 reviews
3.9
3 Members
avatiakh, blackdove07, bicyclepunk
60
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
by Yukio Mishima
1,027 members
16 reviews
3.9
3 Members
scottd, acceptance, bicyclepunk
61
Almost Transparent Blue
by Ryū Murakami
1,041 members
31 reviews
3.1
3 Members
SqueakyChu, Simone2, bicyclepunk
62
After the banquet
by Yukio Mishima
713 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
henkl, acceptance, bicyclepunk
63
The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
2,268 members
94 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
RBeffa, annus_sanctus
64
The Key
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
876 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
henkl, acceptance, bicyclepunk
65
Kappa
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
515 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
RBeffa, acceptance, bicyclepunk
66
The Guest Cat
by Takashi Hiraide
1,476 members
72 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
RBeffa, leigonj
67
Before the Dawn
by Shimazaki Toson
56 members
1 review
½ 4.4
2 Members
eromsted, bicyclepunk
68
A Drifting Life
by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
480 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
avatiakh, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Quicksand
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
583 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
henkl, acceptance, bicyclepunk
70
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,742 members
390 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Aug3Zimm, acceptance
71
1Q84 Book 3
by Haruki Murakami
2,067 members
69 reviews
3.8
2 Members
avatiakh, JuliaMaria
72
The Memory Police
by Yoko Ogawa
3,771 members
135 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
stretch, pitjrw
73
The Ruined Map
by Kōbō Abe
743 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
eromsted, bicyclepunk
74
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
by Lady Sarashina
541 members
10 reviews
4
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
75
Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
2,812 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
RBeffa, JuliaMaria
76
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa
by Robert Hass
750 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
aulsmith, bicyclepunk
77
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
613 members
17 reviews
4
2 Members
RBeffa, acceptance
78
Across the Nightingale Floor
by Gillian Rubinstein
5,088 members
132 reviews
3.9
2 Members
avatiakh, blackdove07
79
Real World
by Natsuo Kirino
887 members
38 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
stretch, blackdove07
80
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
6,363 members
218 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
81
Fires on the Plain
by Shōhei Ōoka
409 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
stretch
82
The Blanket Cats
by Kiyoshi Shigematsu
182 members
3 reviews
3.1
Member
ngoomie
83
Harlequin Butterfly
by Toh Enjoe
57 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
annus_sanctus
84
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity: A Novel
by Erika Kobayashi
41 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
Aug3Zimm
85
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by Haruki Murakami
4,886 members
81 reviews
3.8
2 Members
blackdove07, bicyclepunk
86
The Decay of the Angel
by Yukio Mishima
1,186 members
16 reviews
3.9
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
87
Hōjōki
by Kamo no Chomei
295 members
9 reviews
3.9
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
89
Self Portraits
by Osamu Dazai
202 members
½ 4.5
2 Members
acceptance, bicyclepunk
90
Birthday Stories
by Haruki Murakami
497 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
blackdove07, bicyclepunk
91
Breasts and Eggs
by Mieko Kawakami
1,583 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
JuliaMaria, acceptance
92
Tony Takitani (Individual Short Story)
by Haruki Murakami
135 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
blackdove07, bicyclepunk
93
Malice
by Keigo Higashino
829 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
avatiakh, acceptance
94
Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day
by Donald Keene
319 members
1 review
½ 3.7
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
95
Tales from the Cafe
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
1,831 members
44 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
96
Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
981 members
42 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Aug3Zimm
97
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
by Murasaki Shikibu
543 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
98
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
by Ivan Morris
646 members
12 reviews
4
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk
99
Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
4,737 members
260 reviews
3.8
2 Members
JuliaMaria, acceptance
100
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
by Michitsuna no Haha
363 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
henkl, bicyclepunk