Bone Ash is a supernatural horror novel about a cursed highrise construction site in Tokyo. Tow Ubukata takes the urban legend of Tokyo's "hidden underground shrines" and runs with it through an action-packed and politically charged adventure. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/02/07/b...
Bone Ash
Tow Ubukata’s 2022 horror novel Bone Ash is a story about cursed architecture. The twist is that the architecture in question is the skyscraper outside Shibuya Station that was under construction d…
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February 9, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Bone Ash is a supernatural horror novel about a cursed highrise construction site in Tokyo. Tow Ubukata takes the urban legend of Tokyo's "hidden underground shrines" and runs with it through an action-packed and politically charged adventure. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/02/07/b...
About a Place in the Kinki Region is a supernatural horror novel assembled from roughly two dozen “found footage” style short stories that inspire the reader to dig ever deeper for a long-buried truth hidden within layers of secrets. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/01/31/a...
February 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
About a Place in the Kinki Region is a supernatural horror novel assembled from roughly two dozen “found footage” style short stories that inspire the reader to dig ever deeper for a long-buried truth hidden within layers of secrets. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/01/31/a...
The Blanket Cats collects seven bittersweet short stories about the clients of a cat rental service. What I like about these stories is that all of their protagonists are the villain of someone else’s life. But maybe a cat can fix them! #Japanesefiction #booksky 🐈 japaneselit.net/2026/01/24/t...
January 26, 2026 at 2:22 PM
The Blanket Cats collects seven bittersweet short stories about the clients of a cat rental service. What I like about these stories is that all of their protagonists are the villain of someone else’s life. But maybe a cat can fix them! #Japanesefiction #booksky 🐈 japaneselit.net/2026/01/24/t...
What if a sassy, Tim Curry voiced cat showed up at your door and said, “The books need saving and you’re the only one who can help”!?!
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Bookworm In Space's review of The Cat Who Saved Books (The Cat Who..., #1)
5/5: A Whisker-Twitching ode to Bookish Souls 📚 If you’ve ever hugged a book like it’s a lifeline, The Cat Who Saved Books will feel like it was written just for you. When I read this the oddest thin...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
What if a sassy, Tim Curry voiced cat showed up at your door and said, “The books need saving and you’re the only one who can help”!?!
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#booksky #WhimsicalReads #TheCatWhoSavedBooks #SaveTheBooks #JapaneseFiction #TranslatedFiction #cats #books
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Strange Map, the fourth book by the creepypasta YouTuber Uketsu, is a clever horror-mystery novel about an abandoned village at the heart of a railway murder, and its elements of gothic horror are darkly reminiscent of The Hound of the Baskervilles. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/01/10/s...
January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Strange Map, the fourth book by the creepypasta YouTuber Uketsu, is a clever horror-mystery novel about an abandoned village at the heart of a railway murder, and its elements of gothic horror are darkly reminiscent of The Hound of the Baskervilles. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2026/01/10/s...
Salvation of a Saint isn’t just a murder mystery — it’s about how far devotion can go before it turns destructive.
Quiet, precise, and unsettling in the way only Keigo Higashino can manage.
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Quiet, precise, and unsettling in the way only Keigo Higashino can manage.
Full review here: bookboochi.site/salvation-of...
#BookTalk #CrimeFiction #JapaneseFiction #MysteryBooks
Salvation of a Saint Review: An Impossible Crime Explained
A spoiler-free review of Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino, an impossible-crime mystery that focuses on how a murder could occur—not who did it.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Salvation of a Saint isn’t just a murder mystery — it’s about how far devotion can go before it turns destructive.
Quiet, precise, and unsettling in the way only Keigo Higashino can manage.
Full review here: bookboochi.site/salvation-of...
#BookTalk #CrimeFiction #JapaneseFiction #MysteryBooks
Quiet, precise, and unsettling in the way only Keigo Higashino can manage.
Full review here: bookboochi.site/salvation-of...
#BookTalk #CrimeFiction #JapaneseFiction #MysteryBooks
Atsuhiro Yoshida's short story collection Tokyo Apartment brings together 21 pieces of fiction about people who rent rooms in and around the city. Instead of wealth and glamor, these stories celebrate the smaller and seedier corners of Tokyo. #Japanesefiction 🌃 japaneselit.net/2026/01/03/t...
Tokyo Apartment
Atsuhiro Yoshida’s 2025 short fiction collection #Tokyo Apartment brings together 21 stand-alone stories about people living in and around Tokyo. The characters are usually living on their own, alm…
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January 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Atsuhiro Yoshida's short story collection Tokyo Apartment brings together 21 pieces of fiction about people who rent rooms in and around the city. Instead of wealth and glamor, these stories celebrate the smaller and seedier corners of Tokyo. #Japanesefiction 🌃 japaneselit.net/2026/01/03/t...
🍜 🐈 Taste the nostalgia in my review of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, a Japanese healing fiction about recreated dishes burned by redundancy.
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📚 Check out my other book reviews, reading topics, and writing tips on my blog!
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives – Hisashi Kashiwai (Review)
Taste the nostalgia in my review of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, a Japanese healing fiction about recreated dishes burned by redundancy.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
🍜 🐈 Taste the nostalgia in my review of The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, a Japanese healing fiction about recreated dishes burned by redundancy.
📚 Check out my other book reviews, reading topics, and writing tips on my blog!
#books #reading #Japanesefiction #booksky #readersky
📚 Check out my other book reviews, reading topics, and writing tips on my blog!
#books #reading #Japanesefiction #booksky #readersky
The weather is gloomy and I picked up a book that promises to be creepy! I think Sunday is looking good.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The weather is gloomy and I picked up a book that promises to be creepy! I think Sunday is looking good.
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Masatsugu Ono’s At the Edge of the Woods is a short but disquieting Gothic novel about modern anxieties. Ono’s writing is gorgeously atmospheric, and the legendary Juliet Winters Carpenter has done a dazzling job with the translation. #Japanesefiction #booksky 🌲 japaneselit.net/2025/12/20/a...
At the Edge of the Woods
In the woods, there is a castle. The castle was once the residence of the landowning family that ruled the area. During the war, it was the headquarters of a resistance movement. Now it sits empty …
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December 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Masatsugu Ono’s At the Edge of the Woods is a short but disquieting Gothic novel about modern anxieties. Ono’s writing is gorgeously atmospheric, and the legendary Juliet Winters Carpenter has done a dazzling job with the translation. #Japanesefiction #booksky 🌲 japaneselit.net/2025/12/20/a...
12 days of Christmas, 12 favorite reads of the year. 5/12. I loved the premise of meeting someone under a full moon to obtain closure.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
12 days of Christmas, 12 favorite reads of the year. 5/12. I loved the premise of meeting someone under a full moon to obtain closure.
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Day 17 of most Impactful reads of 2025: Watermoon
A journey through time and mystical worlds truly like nothing I’ve ever read! Complete with a cover that has instructions to be folded into Oragami!
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A journey through time and mystical worlds truly like nothing I’ve ever read! Complete with a cover that has instructions to be folded into Oragami!
#watermoon #booksky #books #japanesefiction
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Day 17 of most Impactful reads of 2025: Watermoon
A journey through time and mystical worlds truly like nothing I’ve ever read! Complete with a cover that has instructions to be folded into Oragami!
#watermoon #booksky #books #japanesefiction
A journey through time and mystical worlds truly like nothing I’ve ever read! Complete with a cover that has instructions to be folded into Oragami!
#watermoon #booksky #books #japanesefiction
Yoko Ogawa’s 2025 novel Silent Singer is a bittersweet story about the significance of creativity at the margins and the value of art that never finds an audience, as well as the decay that creeps in at the edges of isolated communities. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/12/13/s...
Silent Singer
Yōko Ogawa’s 2025 novel Silent Singer (Sairento Shingā) is a bittersweet story about a woman named Ririka who lives alone in a mountain forest near a community of people devoted to silence. Ririka …
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December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Yoko Ogawa’s 2025 novel Silent Singer is a bittersweet story about the significance of creativity at the margins and the value of art that never finds an audience, as well as the decay that creeps in at the edges of isolated communities. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/12/13/s...
More lovely books arrived. Just finished Super-Frog in around 30 minutes. Beautifully illustrated, Kafkaesque surrealism. So glad I've discovered Murakami. Strange pictures is for my daughter but I'm not sure I can wait until after Xmas to nab it and read it for myself. 🤤
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November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
More lovely books arrived. Just finished Super-Frog in around 30 minutes. Beautifully illustrated, Kafkaesque surrealism. So glad I've discovered Murakami. Strange pictures is for my daughter but I'm not sure I can wait until after Xmas to nab it and read it for myself. 🤤
#Booksky #Japanesefiction
#Booksky #Japanesefiction
Mai Ishizawa’s The Place of Shells follows a Japanese PhD student studying art history in Germany while coming to terms with her fading memories of the March 2011 tsunami. Ishizawa’s literary style is gorgeously translated by Polly Barton. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/11/01/t...
The Place of Shells
Mai Ishizawa’s short novel The Place of Shells, which was awarded an Akutagawa Prize in 2021, follows a Japanese woman pursuing her PhD research in European art history at a university in the Germa…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Mai Ishizawa’s The Place of Shells follows a Japanese PhD student studying art history in Germany while coming to terms with her fading memories of the March 2011 tsunami. Ishizawa’s literary style is gorgeously translated by Polly Barton. #Japanesefiction #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/11/01/t...
Confessions
“It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
Sale: $18.99 to $2.99
by Kanae Minato
Rating: 4.0/5 (5,429 Reviews)
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“It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
Sale: $18.99 to $2.99
by Kanae Minato
Rating: 4.0/5 (5,429 Reviews)
#PsychologicalThriller #LiteraryFiction #Mystery #Revenge #BookTok #JapaneseFiction #BookSky
Confessions
Confessions - Kindle edition by Minato, Kanae, Snyder, Stephen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Confessions.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Confessions
“It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
Sale: $18.99 to $2.99
by Kanae Minato
Rating: 4.0/5 (5,429 Reviews)
#PsychologicalThriller #LiteraryFiction #Mystery #Revenge #BookTok #JapaneseFiction #BookSky
“It’s much easier to condemn people who do the wrong thing than it is to do the right thing yourself.”
Sale: $18.99 to $2.99
by Kanae Minato
Rating: 4.0/5 (5,429 Reviews)
#PsychologicalThriller #LiteraryFiction #Mystery #Revenge #BookTok #JapaneseFiction #BookSky
BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD. Now starting. In a Japanese cafe which seems most appropriate. Got a Teriyaki dinner set and iced matcha coming. #NowReading #Fiction #JapaneseFiction #books
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD. Now starting. In a Japanese cafe which seems most appropriate. Got a Teriyaki dinner set and iced matcha coming. #NowReading #Fiction #JapaneseFiction #books
Something we did a little while ago has finally gone live
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Empowering Women’s Voice through Translating Japanese Fiction | The University of Sheffield Player
Discover the rise of contemporary Japanese women’s writing in translation with leading authors, translators, and publishers.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Something we did a little while ago has finally gone live
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A star instructor’s brutal murder exposes the toxic underbelly of Japan’s high-pressure cram school system in this gritty, fast-paced detective thriller set in modern Tokyo. #CrimeThriller #JapaneseFiction #IndieBooks #AmReading #ReaderViews buff.ly/Wca17yi
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A star instructor’s brutal murder exposes the toxic underbelly of Japan’s high-pressure cram school system in this gritty, fast-paced detective thriller set in modern Tokyo. #CrimeThriller #JapaneseFiction #IndieBooks #AmReading #ReaderViews buff.ly/Wca17yi
NonNonBa is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about manga creator Shigeru Mizuki's childhood in rural Japan in the early 1930s and his relationship with an elderly family friend who was a walking repository of local folklore. #Japanesefiction #booksky 👹 japaneselit.net/2025/10/18/n...
NonNonBa
Shigeru Mizuki is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and influential manga artists. Today he’s known primarily for documenting the culture and folklore of his childhood in rural western J…
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October 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NonNonBa is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about manga creator Shigeru Mizuki's childhood in rural Japan in the early 1930s and his relationship with an elderly family friend who was a walking repository of local folklore. #Japanesefiction #booksky 👹 japaneselit.net/2025/10/18/n...
Recent book pickups over the last few weeks.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Recent book pickups over the last few weeks.
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@joerlansdale.bsky.social @nancyacollins.bsky.social @hardcasecrime.bsky.social #japanesefiction #makeupeffects #NightoftheLivingDead #ghostsofshepherdstown
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Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies is a collection of flash fiction that responds to various aspects of pop culture in clever and surprising ways. The stories are filled with buoyant energy and sharp insight, and this is a super fun book. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/10/11/t...
The Woman Dies
The Woman Dies presents 52 pieces of flash fiction by Aoko Matsuda, the author of the short story collection Where the Wild Ladies Are. Each of Matsuda’s small but sparkling stories responds to var…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Aoko Matsuda's The Woman Dies is a collection of flash fiction that responds to various aspects of pop culture in clever and surprising ways. The stories are filled with buoyant energy and sharp insight, and this is a super fun book. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/10/11/t...
Looking for a novel that feels as good in your hands as it does in your heart? Here's a very special Japanese-paperback-inspired look for this lovely read about a taxi ride to change your life tr @tnieda.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Looking for a novel that feels as good in your hands as it does in your heart? Here's a very special Japanese-paperback-inspired look for this lovely read about a taxi ride to change your life tr @tnieda.bsky.social
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Emi Yagi’s 2023 novel When the Museum Is Closed is a short, sweet, and refreshing work of magical realism about a shy young woman who falls in love with a statue of Venus. The twist is that the statue loves her back! I really enjoyed this one. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/25/w...
When the Museum Is Closed
Emi Yagi’s 2023 novel When the Museum Is Closed is a refreshing work of magical realism about a shy young woman who falls in love with a statue of Venus. The twist is that the statue loves her back…
japaneselit.net
September 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Emi Yagi’s 2023 novel When the Museum Is Closed is a short, sweet, and refreshing work of magical realism about a shy young woman who falls in love with a statue of Venus. The twist is that the statue loves her back! I really enjoyed this one. #Japanesefiction 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/09/25/w...