Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe The Memory Police Breasts and Eggs
Earthlings Convenience Store Woman The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The uplifting million-copy bestselling Japanese translated story There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
The Nakano Thrift Shop Kitchen Things Remembered and Things Forgotten 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Snow Country The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Discover Japanese Literature

By Mostly Books

Discover Japanese Literature

By Mostly Books

Here is a list of brilliant titles that feature Japanese authors, books centred around Japan and Japanese culture, as showcased by Mostly Books in our recent in-shop 'Discover' event! Themes include cats, cafes and konbinis, cult classics and books inspired by Japan.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

£10.99 £10.44

Tales from the Cafe

Tales from the Cafe

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

£10.99 £10.44

The Memory Police

The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa

£9.99 £9.49

Breasts and Eggs

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

£9.99 £9.49

Earthlings

Earthlings

SAYAKA MURATA

£9.99 £9.49

Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

SAYAKA MURATA

£9.99

The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The uplifting million-copy bestselling Japanese translated story

The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The uplifting million-copy bestselling Japanese translated story

Hiro Arikawa

£9.99 £9.49

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Kikuko Tsumura

£9.99 £9.49

The Nakano Thrift Shop

The Nakano Thrift Shop

Hiromi Kawakami

£9.99 £9.49

Kitchen

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

£9.99 £9.49

Things Remembered and Things Forgotten

Things Remembered and Things Forgotten

Kyoko Nakajima

£9.99 £9.49

Short stories

'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms

'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms

Naoko Abe

£14.99 £14.24

Non-fiction

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time

The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time

Anna Sherman

£10.99 £10.44

Non-fiction

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Matsuo Basho

£8.99 £8.54

Haiku poetry

Snow Country

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

£9.99 £9.49

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima

£9.99 £9.49

Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

£9.99 £9.49

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

£10.99 £10.44

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

£10.99 £10.44

If Cats Disappeared From The World

If Cats Disappeared From The World

Genki Kawamura

£10.99 £10.44

Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller

Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller

Min Jin Lee

£9.99 £9.49

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The moving, unforgettable, Japanese-set international bestseller - inspired by true even

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The moving, unforgettable, Japanese-set international bestseller - inspired by true even

Laura Imai Imai Messina

£9.99 £9.49

Artist of the Floating World

Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

£9.99 £9.49

A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

£9.99 £9.49

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Longlisted for the Booker Prize

David Mitchell

£10.99 £10.44