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116 popular japanese books
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Japan. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Death Note Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
"First published in Japan in 2003 by Shueisha, Inc., Tokyo"--P. facing t.p.
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Diary of a Void : A Novel by Emi Yagi EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
*One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year* *As heard on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday* “One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “Always expect the unexpected when you’re not expecting.” ―Sloane Crosley A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she’s pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs When thirty-four... continue


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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and abso... continue

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El sonido de la montaña

El sonido de la montaña by Yasunari Kawabata ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Ogata Shingo envejece; pierde la memoria, confunde cosas. Los sueños comienzan a ocupar un lugar más importante; y en algunos de sueños, y también en sus vigilias, percibe un murmullo que confunde o no puede reconocer: ¿La montaña le está hablando? ¿Lo está llamando a aprender de su sabia eternidad? Su vida es de una serena tristeza; es capaz de percibir la belleza de los árboles, de los arreglos florales, del canto de los pájaros y de la delicadeza de su nuera, Kikuko. Al reflexionar sobre la vida de sus hijos, sie... continue

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El Templo del Alba by Yukio Mishima ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Considerada como el testamento ideológico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), «El mar de la fertilidad» es una tetralogía en la que el autor abarca a través de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolución del Japón desde comienzos del siglo xx hasta los años1970, expresando su rebeldía contra una sociedad que él consideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual. Obra transida de espiritualidad oriental a la vez que malévolo retrato del Japón posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, EL TEMPLO DEL ALBA (1970) es una novela que, como las del resto de la serie, participa de un torrente d... continue

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ENCUENTROS SECRETOS by Kobo Abe ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Kobo Abe nos presenta una surrealista y psicodélica historia en esta obra. Una noche una ambulancia llega a la casa del protagonista de la novela y se lleva a su mujer sin que esta presente síntomas de estar enferma. El hombre va a buscarla y descubre un hospital que es tan grande como una ciudad, se pierde en sus pasillos y descubre extraños personajes y demenciales experimentos sexuales.


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Geisha : A Life by Mineko Iwasaki EN

Rating: 4.5 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.

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Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
"An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye, Tsugumi is an enchanting novel"


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