List of Novels
I blame the attractive cover art making me buy too many books, but I’m currently only about half way through reading these. You’ll find reviews of those I have actually read by searching for the tag “japan” so at this point I’ll just list them by title.
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Before Your Memory Fades - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Tales From the Cafe - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Before We Say Goodbye - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Before We Forget Kindness - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum
- The Door-to-Door Bookstore - Garsten Henn
- Butter - Asako Yuzuki
- The Cat and the City - Nick Bradley (a British author trying his own take on the genre!)
- The Kamagowa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai
- The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwai
- The Dallergut Dream Department Store - Miye Lee
- Return to the Dallergut Dream Department Store - Miye Lee
- Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
- Scattered All Over The Earth - Yoko Tawada
- Sympathy Tower Tokyo - Rie Qudan
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa
- More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa
- Days at the Torunka Cafe - Satoshi Yagisawa
- Murder at the Black Cat Cafe - Seishi Yokomizo
- Strange Pictures - Uketsu
- Strange Houses - Uketsu
- What You Are Looking For is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
- Beautiful Star - Yukio Mishima
- The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop - Mai Mochizuki
- The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop - Takya Asakura
- The Bookshop Woman - Nanako Hanada (not a novel, but reads like one!)
- Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
- The Nakano Thrift Shop - Hiromi Kawakami
- All the Lovers in the Night- Mieko Kawakami
- The Convenience Store by the Sea - Sonoko Machida
(I also have some works by Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami that aren’t set in Japan, so I’m not including them here.)