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Barbery, Muriel " A Single Rose" (French:  Une Rose Seule) - 2020 I read Muriel Barbery's " The Elegance of the Hedgehog ...

Takahashi, Yuta "The Chibineko Kitchen" (Japanese: ちびねこ亭の思い出ごはん 黒猫と初恋サンドイッチ/Chibinekoteino omoidegohan kuronekoto hatsukoisandoitc...

Oates, Joyce Carol "Blonde" - 2000 I find it hard to write this review. I love books by Joyce Carol Oates, I think she deserves th...

Tsumura, Kikuko "There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job" (Konoyoni tayasui shigoto wa na/この世にたやすい仕事はない) - 2015 This was our inte...

Buck, Pearl S. "The Patriot" - 1939 Pearl S. Buck was always a great writer of historical fiction. Here, she talks about the probl...

Buck, Pearl S. "A Bridge for Passing" - 1961 This is arguably one of the author's most personal books. She talks not only abo...

Bruckner, Karl " The Day of the Bomb" (German: Sadako will leben ) - 1961 I read this story as a child and it made a big impressio...

Miura, Shion "The Easy Life in Kamusari" (Japanese: 神去なあなあ日常 Kamusari nānā nichijō) - 2009 We read this in our international onli...

Abe, Kōbō (安部 公房 Abe Kōbō) "Inter Ice Age 4" (Japanese: 第四間氷期 Dai yon kan pyouki) - 1959 This was our international online book c...

Lee, Min Jin "Pachinko" - 2017 I was drawn to this book because of its Asian appearance. These lovely drawings can only come from ...

Greer, Andrew Sean "Less" - 2017 So far, I have never read a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that wasn't interesting. I gue...

Hastings, Max "The Secret War: Spies, Codes And Guerrillas, 1939–45" - 2015 A highly interesting book if you are interested i...

Murakami, Haruki "Kafka on the Shore" (Japanese: 海辺のカフカ Umibe no Kafuka) - 2004 I had no idea this book was kind of a fant...

  Murakami, Haruki "Norwegian Wood" ( Japanese: Noruwei no mori, ノルウェイの森 ) - 1987 ♫ I once had a girl, or should I say, sh...

Coerr, Eleanor "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" - 1977 I remember reading a story about Sadako as a teenager (see here...

Murasaki, Lady Shikibu "The Tale of Genji" ( Japanese: 源氏物語 Genji Monogatari ) - early 11th century A highly interesting but t...

Guterson, David "Snow Falling on Cedars" - 1994 David Guterson 's first book, not my first Guterson. I read " East o...

Golden, Arthur "Memoirs of a Geisha" - 1997  I have read this book twice - once with my first book club, again with my prese...