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Literary & Classics29
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Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami
4.04 average rating, · 102.2k ratings
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Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
4.46 average rating, · 24.8k ratings
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Silence
Shūsaku Endō
4.10 average rating, · 41k ratings
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Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
4.04 average rating, · 45.6k ratings
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Spring Snow
Yukio Mishima
4.16 average rating, · 24.5k ratings
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The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.03 average rating, · 12.3k ratings
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Rashomon and Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.00 average rating, · 12.6k ratings
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Runaway Horses
Yukio Mishima
4.23 average rating, · 9.5k ratings
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The Decay of the Angel
Yukio Mishima
4.13 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Patriotism
Yukio Mishima
4.11 average rating, · 4.9k ratings
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I Called Him Necktie
Milena Michiko Flašar
4.04 average rating, · 5k ratings
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Hell Screen
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.16 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
Chūya Nakahara
4.27 average rating, · 2.2k 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
Ono no Komachi
4.38 average rating, · 2k ratings
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Matsuo Bashō
4.19 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Fires on the Plain
Shōhei Ōoka
4.00 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic
Osamu Dazai
4.11 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The Tale of the Heike
Anonymous
4.05 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Musashi Book One: The Way of the Samurai
Eiji Yoshikawa
4.29 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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The Spider's Thread
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.07 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Basho: The Complete Haiku
Matsuo Bashō
4.44 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Classic Tradition of Haiku
Faubion Bowers
4.03 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Vintage Murakami
Haruki Murakami
4.04 average rating, · 918 ratings
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Donald Keene
4.04 average rating, · 652 ratings
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