Books Written by Japanese Authors
- Coming of Age, Dystopian, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who,...
- by Yume Kitasei
- Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
- Publication Year: 2024
Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the...
- by Yume Kitasei
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Crime & Mystery
- Publication Year: 2024
Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous job...
- by Yume Kitasei
- Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation. In Earth’s...
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2028
Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories. Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hong Kong, and Hachijo-jima, the six stories...
- Fiction, Short Stories, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2025
A spiky, edgy collection of five wickedly funny stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan—a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic...
- by Yoko Ogawa
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them....
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, Friendship Fiction, World Literature
- Publication Year: 2017
A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan. Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is...
- Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2024
Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars. In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck....
- by Ruth Ozeki
- Asian American Fiction, Fiction, Magical Realism
- Publication Year: 2021
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas...
Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go...
- Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from...
- Asian American Fiction, Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2015
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some...
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Publication Year: 2023
A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter....
- Publication Year: 2023
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade...
- Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2023
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto’s wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a...
- Cultural Heritage Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2018
The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko...
- Children's, Children's Picture Book
- Publication Year: 2023
Spirited Away meets Where the Wild Things Are by way of yokai mythology in this enchanting picture book by debut author J. P. Takahashi and illustrator Minako Tomigahara. The night...
- by Yoko Ogawa
- Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are...
- Business and Entrepreneurship, Career, Inspiration and Personal Growth, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2021
While anyone can make achieve success, the reality is not everyone has equitable access to the necessary tools to reach it. This stems from an inequity rooted in our networks....