Japanese Lit 47 books by Laelia

#1 of 6 in 魔女の宅急便 [Majo no Takkyūbin]

Kiki's Delivery Service

ByEiko Kadono,Lynne E. Riggs(Translator)

1985 • 116 Readers • 164 pages • 4.2

Hayao Miyazaki's Memoir

Starting Point: 1979-1996

ByHayao Miyazaki,Beth Cary(Translator),+1 more

1996 • 15 Readers • 500 pages • 3.9

#1 of 2 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

ByToshikazu Kawaguchi,Geoffrey Trousselot(Translator)

2015 • 1,100 Readers • 213 pages • 3.7

Norwegian Wood

ByHaruki Murakami,Jay Rubin

1987 • 1,129 Readers • 389 pages • 3.9

After Dark

ByHaruki Murakami

2004 • 371 Readers • 201 pages • 3.7

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

ByJay Rubin

2018 • 48 Readers • 3.9

The Book of Tea

ByKakuzō Okakura

1906 • 8 Readers • 128 pages • 4

How Do You Live?

ByGenzaburo Yoshino,Bruno Navasky(Translator)

1937 • 118 Readers • 280 pages • 3.8

#10

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

ByHiro Arikawa,Philip Gabriel(Translator)

2012 • 258 Readers • 4.3

#11

The Memory Police

ByYōko Ogawa,Stephen Snyder(Translator),+1 more

1994 • 553 Readers • 289 pages • 3.7

#12

The Housekeeper and the Professor

ByYōko Ogawa,Stephen Snyder(Translator)

2003 • 232 Readers • 192 pages • 4

#13

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

ByYasunari Kawabata,Edward G. Seidensticker(Translator)

1977 • 132 Readers • 204 pages • 3.4

#14

Heaven

ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2009 • 251 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

#15

Soul Lanterns

ByShaw Kuzki,Emily Balistrieri(Translator)

2021 • 6 Readers • 176 pages • 5

#16

The Thief

ByFuminori Nakamura,Satoko Izumo(Translator),+1 more

2009 • 34 Readers • 211 pages • 3.7

#17

All the Lovers in the Night

ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2011 • 174 Readers • 220 pages • 3.6

#18

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

ByKeigo Higashino,Sam Bett(Translator)

2012 • 78 Readers • 314 pages • 4.6

#19

Kafka on the Shore

ByHaruki Murakami,Philip Gabriel(Translator)

2001 • 1,075 Readers • 468 pages • 3.9

#20

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

ByHaruki Murakami

1994 • 690 Readers • 611 pages • 4.1

#21

Grave of the Fireflies

ByAkiyuki Nosaka,James R. Abrams(Translator)

1967 • 8 Readers • 18 pages • 3.9

#22

The Pillow Book

BySei Shōnagon

1002 • 46 Readers • 574 pages • 4.2

#23

Convenience Store Woman

BySayaka Murata,Ginny Tapley Takemori(Translator)

2016 • 822 Readers • 3h 21m • 3.7

#24

The Sound of Waves

ByYukio Mishima

1954 • 69 Readers • 192 pages • 3.6

#25

#1-56 of 1 in 源氏物語

The Tale of Genji

ByMurasaki Shikibu

1001 • 135 Readers • 1,360 pages • 3.6

#26

#3 of 5 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before Your Memory Fades

ByToshikazu Kawaguchi,Geoffrey Trousselot(Translator)

2018 • 128 Readers • 249 pages • 3.9

#27

#2 of 5 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Tales from the Cafe

ByToshikazu Kawaguchi

2017 • 210 Readers • 224 pages • 3.9

#28

If Cats Disappeared from the World

ByGenki Kawamura

2012 • 185 Readers • 4h 49m • 3.7

#29

Lonely Castle in the Mirror

ByMizuki Tsujimura,Phillip Gabriel(Translator)

2017 • 258 Readers • 354 pages • 4.4

#30

Kitchen

ByBanana Yoshimoto,Megan Backus(Translator)

1975 • 247 Readers • 160 pages • 3.9

#31

People from My Neighborhood

ByHiromi Kawakami,Ted Goossen(Translator)

2020 • 16 Readers • 159 pages • 4.5

#32

Life Ceremony

BySayaka Murata,Ginny Tapley Takemori(Translator)

2022 • 155 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

#33

The Premonition

ByBanana Yoshimoto

1988 • 38 Readers • 145 pages • 3

#34

#1 of 1 in 人間失格

No Longer Human

ByOsamu Dazai,Donald Keene(Translator)

1948 • 692 Readers • 196 pages • 3.9

#35

Strange Weather in Tokyo

ByHiromi Kawakami,Allison Markin Powell(Translator)

2001 • 153 Readers • 192 pages • 3.5

#36

#4 of 5 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before We Say Goodbye

ByToshikazu Kawaguchi,Geoffrey Trousselot(Translator)

2021 • 91 Readers • 170 pages • 4.2

#37

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

ByMichiko Aoyama,Alison Watts(Translator)

2020 • 305 Readers • 193 pages • 4.1

#38

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea

ByYukio Mishima

1963 • 270 Readers • 144 pages • 3.8

#39

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse

ByAnthony Thwaite

2009 • 3 Readers • 368 pages

#40

#1 of 2 in 森崎書店の日々(Days at the Morisaki Bookshop)

Days At The Morisaki Bookshop

BySatoshi Yagisawa,Eric Ozawa(Translator)

2010 • 281 Readers • 169 pages • 3.7

#41

Tokyo Ueno Station

ByMiri Yū,Morgan Giles(Translator)

2014 • 124 Readers • 197 pages • 3.4

#42

#1 of 4 in The Rat

Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

ByHaruki Murakami,Ted Goossen(Translator)

1979 • 52 Readers • 178 pages • 3.6

#43

When We Were Orphans

ByKazuo Ishiguro

2000 • 78 Readers • 313 pages • 3.6

#44

Breasts and Eggs

ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2019 • 273 Readers • 366 pages • 3.8

#45

My Neighbor Totoro

ByTsugiko Kubo,Jim Hubbert(Translator)

1988 • 18 Readers • 244 pages • 4.8

#46

The Rainbow

ByYasunari Kawabata,Haydn Trowell(Translator)

1951 • 3 Readers

#47

Diary of a Void

ByEmi Yagi,David Boyd(Translator),+1 more

2020 • 125 Readers • 224 pages • 3.7

#48

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

ByMisaki Ichijo

2022 • 2 Readers • 157 pages • 4

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