Literature by Japanese Women

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Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating β€” 121,469 ratings
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Out
Out 3.94 avg rating β€” 45,873 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman 3.68 avg rating β€” 349,106 ratings
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor 4.05 avg rating β€” 91,292 ratings
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A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time Being 4.06 avg rating β€” 131,679 ratings
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The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji 3.72 avg rating β€” 14,370 ratings
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon 4.02 avg rating β€” 9,588 ratings
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Strange Weather in Tokyo 3.69 avg rating β€” 49,422 ratings
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Masks
Masks 3.68 avg rating β€” 3,850 ratings
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The Memory Police
The Memory Police 3.71 avg rating β€” 124,185 ratings
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The Lake
The Lake 3.57 avg rating β€” 11,357 ratings
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The Waiting Years
The Waiting Years 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,952 ratings
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The Goddess Chronicle
The Goddess Chronicle 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,517 ratings
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Revenge
Revenge 4.02 avg rating β€” 27,951 ratings
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Geisha, a Life
Geisha, a Life 3.93 avg rating β€” 26,802 ratings
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Grotesque
Grotesque 3.74 avg rating β€” 13,635 ratings
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
Hardboiled & Hard Luck 3.74 avg rating β€” 7,211 ratings
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles 4.33 avg rating β€” 95,627 ratings
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Real World
Real World 3.41 avg rating β€” 8,668 ratings
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas 3.67 avg rating β€” 8,539 ratings
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Lizard
Lizard 3.74 avg rating β€” 10,037 ratings
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Breasts and Eggs
Breasts and Eggs 3.85 avg rating β€” 75,038 ratings
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Earthlings
Earthlings 3.60 avg rating β€” 91,676 ratings
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People From My Neighbourhood
People From My Neighbourhood 3.50 avg rating β€” 12,160 ratings
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N.P
N.P 3.55 avg rating β€” 12,445 ratings
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Asleep
Asleep 3.77 avg rating β€” 15,367 ratings
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The Confessions of Lady Nijō
The Confessions of Lady Nijō 3.95 avg rating β€” 697 ratings
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Brave Story
Brave Story 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,860 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.93 avg rating β€” 72,811 ratings
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The Buddha in the Attic
The Buddha in the Attic 3.70 avg rating β€” 62,372 ratings
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The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary of Lady Murasaki 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,098 ratings
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Goodbye Tsugumi
Goodbye Tsugumi 3.77 avg rating β€” 14,914 ratings
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The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan 3.76 avg rating β€” 727 ratings
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Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito, #1)
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 2,975 ratings
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
Where the Wild Ladies Are 3.77 avg rating β€” 6,373 ratings
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Floating Clouds
Floating Clouds 3.52 avg rating β€” 515 ratings
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To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913-1938
To Live and to Write: Selections by Japanese Women Writers, 1913-1938 4.19 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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The Emissary
The Emissary 3.41 avg rating β€” 13,093 ratings
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
The Nakano Thrift Shop 3.37 avg rating β€” 14,371 ratings
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Snakes And Earrings
Snakes And Earrings 3.18 avg rating β€” 5,604 ratings
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Life Ceremony
Life Ceremony 3.75 avg rating β€” 25,304 ratings
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Manazuru
Manazuru 3.45 avg rating β€” 2,034 ratings
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Woman on the Other Shore
Woman on the Other Shore 3.65 avg rating β€” 1,325 ratings
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Requiem
Requiem 4.09 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
The Lonesome Bodybuilder 3.57 avg rating β€” 5,765 ratings
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Penance
Penance 3.82 avg rating β€” 11,315 ratings
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Hotel Iris
Hotel Iris 3.33 avg rating β€” 7,834 ratings
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All She Was Worth
All She Was Worth 3.69 avg rating β€” 3,785 ratings
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I Called Him Necktie
I Called Him Necktie 4.04 avg rating β€” 4,527 ratings
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River of Stars: Selected Poems
River of Stars: Selected Poems 4.23 avg rating β€” 568 ratings
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan 4.39 avg rating β€” 1,870 ratings
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A Tale of False Fortunes
A Tale of False Fortunes 3.92 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
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Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
Where Europe Begins: Stories (New Directions Paperbook) 3.82 avg rating β€” 588 ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century 4.03 avg rating β€” 634 ratings
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Moshi Moshi
Moshi Moshi 3.71 avg rating β€” 7,222 ratings
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Twinkle Twinkle
Twinkle Twinkle 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,159 ratings
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The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo
The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo 3.49 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1 3.95 avg rating β€” 3,094 ratings
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Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories
Toddler-Hunting & Other Stories 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,290 ratings
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ζœˆεˆŠε°‘ε₯³ι‡Žε΄Žγγ‚“ 1 [Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun 1]
ζœˆεˆŠε°‘ε₯³ι‡Žε΄Žγγ‚“ 1 [Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun 1] 4.35 avg rating β€” 6,590 ratings
61.
Other Side River: Free Verse
Other Side River: Free Verse 4.58 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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The Diplomat's Daughter
The Diplomat's Daughter 3.88 avg rating β€” 3,637 ratings
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Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness (Moribito, #2)
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness (Moribito, #2) 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,234 ratings
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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
by: Yoko Ono
4.21 avg rating β€” 2,743 ratings
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When the Emperor Was Divine
When the Emperor Was Divine 3.81 avg rating β€” 29,657 ratings
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Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo
Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo 3.92 avg rating β€” 368 ratings
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The House Spirit and Other Stories
The House Spirit and Other Stories 4.03 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino 3.44 avg rating β€” 6,931 ratings
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All the Lovers in the Night
All the Lovers in the Night 3.69 avg rating β€” 45,157 ratings
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Parade
Parade 3.78 avg rating β€” 3,162 ratings
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Amrita
Amrita 3.62 avg rating β€” 7,541 ratings
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The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1)
The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, #1) 4.23 avg rating β€” 2,971 ratings
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The Factory
The Factory 3.31 avg rating β€” 10,361 ratings
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The Doctor's Wife
The Doctor's Wife 3.80 avg rating β€” 895 ratings
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Confessions of Love
Confessions of Love
by: Uno Chiyo
3.39 avg rating β€” 286 ratings
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Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia
Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia 3.17 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1)
The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest, #1) 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,324 ratings
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This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960-1976
This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960-1976 3.83 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter 3.66 avg rating β€” 4,159 ratings
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To Terra..., Vol. 1
To Terra..., Vol. 1 3.69 avg rating β€” 636 ratings
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Territory of Light
Territory of Light 3.59 avg rating β€” 9,664 ratings
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog 3.40 avg rating β€” 1,618 ratings
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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,665 ratings
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The Twilight Years
The Twilight Years 3.94 avg rating β€” 478 ratings
85.
Child of Fortune
Child of Fortune 3.66 avg rating β€” 1,157 ratings
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Translucent Tree
Translucent Tree 3.22 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
85.
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Memoirs of a Polar Bear 3.37 avg rating β€” 3,811 ratings
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Dragon Sword and Wind Child (Tales of the Magatama, #1)
Dragon Sword and Wind Child (Tales of the Magatama, #1) 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,179 ratings
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The Shooting Gallery
The Shooting Gallery 3.65 avg rating β€” 244 ratings
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A True Novel
A True Novel 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,565 ratings
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A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka
A Long Rainy Season: Haiku and Tanka 4.15 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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I Want to Kick You in the Back
I Want to Kick You in the Back 3.21 avg rating β€” 881 ratings
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Obasan
Obasan 3.70 avg rating β€” 8,228 ratings
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A Hundred Suns
A Hundred Suns 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,532 ratings
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The Secret of the Blue Glass
The Secret of the Blue Glass really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 211 ratings
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Kiss Him, Not Me!, Vol. 1
Kiss Him, Not Me!, Vol. 1
by: Junko
4.02 avg rating β€” 3,656 ratings
97.
Oh, Tama!
Oh, Tama! 3.29 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
97.
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1 4.26 avg rating β€” 24,872 ratings
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The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1)
The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1) 4.07 avg rating β€” 72,048 ratings
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Gosick (Gosick, #1)
Gosick (Gosick, #1) 4.09 avg rating β€” 747 ratings
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