Japanese Literature

Seasons, silences, and the moment before something breaks. Writing from Japan — the puzzle-box detective novel, quiet domestic drama, and the uncanny sitting politely at the table.

On the Place & Period shelf.

Books shelved as Japanese Literature

• The Devil's Flute Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Jim Rion
• The Tokyo Zodiac Murders — Ross MacKenzie
• La Dependienta — Sayaka Murata
• The Devotion of Suspect X — Alexander O. Smith
• The Sound of Waves — Yukio Mishima
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Fumi Komatsu
• The Little Sparrow Murders — Bryan Karetnyk / Seishi Yokomizo
• The Honjin Murders — Seishi Yokomizo / Louise Heal Kawai
• The Sound of Waves — Meredith Weatherby
• Death on Gokumon Island — Louise Heal Kawai / Seishi Yokomizo
• Penitencia — Kanae Minato
• Un lápiz labial para una momia — Toshiko Tamura
• The Spider's Thread — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• The Village of Eight Graves — Seishi Yokomizo / Bryan Karetnyk
• Confesiones — Kanae Minato
• 1Q84, Book 3: October-December — Haruki Murakami
• 1Q84, Book 2: July-September — Haruki Murakami
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea — Yukio Mishima
• The Memory Police — Markus Juslin
• Men Without Women — Ted Goossen
• Before Your Memory Fades — Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• 1Q84: Book 3 — Haruki Murakami

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• Historical Fiction
• International Fiction
• American Literature
• East Asian Literary Fiction
• Irish Literature
• French Literature
• Southern Fiction
• Latin American Fiction
• Victorian Fiction
• Spanish Literature
• Chicano & Latinx Fiction
• Western
• Mexican Literature
• Italian Literature
• African American Literature
• Medieval
• Russian Literature
• Appalachian
• Scottish Literature
• Korean Literature
• Canadian Literature
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