Fiction: Japanese, American, Asian, British, European
Non-Fiction: History, Japanese, All other Non-Fiction
“Piglet” Lottie Hazell (2024) Review | Will you break the perfect life?
★★★★★ Your fiancé tells you …
“(The Fire and the Sea)” Seicho Matsumoto (1967) Review | A trip to a remote island, so 60s
★★★★☆ Classic Seicho Matsumono, tan…
“The Inheritance of Loss” Kiran Desai (2006) Review | Peace, understanding, dream, no such things here
★★★★★+♥ One person is so sma…
“Notes from Underground” Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864) Review | From a dungeon called ego
★★★★☆ A man who is very negative, j…
“Bisexuality in the Ancient World” Eva Cantarella (1988) Review | Then suffer from machismo
★★★★★ A man marries woman as a soci…
“The Golden Road” William Dalrymple (2024) Review | Powerful and exciting
★★★★★+♥ My favourite histori…
“Japan cruel stories 1, flock of poor people” Miyamoto Tsuneichi (1959) Review | The history of the majority
★★★★★ Normal, majority of Japanese …
“Cod A biography of the fish that changed the world” Mark Kurlansky (1997) Review | Our ugly selves exposed by, cod
★★★★★ Nobody had imagined that one …
“Smash and Grab” Sunanda K. Datta-Ray (1984) Review | A dynamic history of Sikkim
★★★★★ A dynamic history of the king…
“Fanny Hill Memoirs of a woman of pleasure” John Cleland (1749) Review | One of the most banned books
★★★★☆ One of the most banned books …
“A BRIEF HISTORY OF TEA” Roy Moxham (2003) Review | An informative history book around tea
★★★★☆ An informative history book a…
“Hotarugawa, Doro no Kawa” Teru Miyamoto (1977) Review | To live in post war Japan
★★★★☆ What is means to live in the …
“On Anarchism” Noam Chomsky (2013) Review | Power of collective actions
★★★★☆ What’s important is what work…
“Gabriel’s Gift” Hanif Kureishi (2001) Review | Rock and London
★★★☆☆ A little book about boyhood, …
“Killing floor” Lee Child (1997) Review | Jack Reacher series
★★★★☆ Jack Reacher series. Explosio…
“The Dream-Pedlars Parade” Mark Bowsher (2025) Review | Darker sequel
★★★★★ Second Myrthali book. The fir…
“The Wisdom of Psychopaths” Kevin Dutton (2012) Review | Attractive and decisive
★★★★☆ Attractive and decisive. If y…
“Mary Seacole” Ron Ramdin (2005) Review | Determination to help her “sons”
★★★★★ Jamaican British nurse whom B…
“A Pale View of Hills” Kazuo Ishiguro (1982) Review | slight malice of “normal” kind people
★★★★★ Ishiguro’s stories always hav…
“Nanisama” Ryo Asai (2012) Review | Unintentionally funny
★★★★☆ It’s a collection of short st…
“Hunted” Abir Mukherjee (2024) Review | Keep reading keep chasing
★★★★☆ It demands you to keep readin…
“Yellowface” Rebecca F Kuang (2023) Review | Facts are not important
★★★★★ I knew it was super popular, …
“No one is too small to make a difference” Greta Thunberg (2019) Review | And she made a difference
★★★★☆ When written it makes it even…
“Tea, the drink that changed the world” John Griffiths (2007) Review | Tea, very close to the hearts and pride of British
★★★★☆ A very thorough book, about t…
“(Arrogance and Virtue)” Mizuki Tsujimura (2019) Review | Not so comical “Pride and Prejudice” in Japan
★★★★★ “Pride and Prejudice&quo…
“The Paying Guests” Sarah Waters (2014) Review | But who manipulates who
★★★★★ As expected, it’s gripping, e…
“Rethinking Japanese History” Yoshihiko Amino (2005) Review | “Common sense” was wrong
★★★★★ Also in Japan, they teach you…
“Zen and Japanese culture” Daisetz T. Suzuki (1940) Review | Japanese means zen
★★★★★ A classic book on Japan and Z…
“Beauty is a wound” Eka Kurniawan (2002) Review | Mix of history, religions, power, and abuse
★★★★★ The mixture of history and ra…
“Power Systems” Noam Chomsky (2013) Review | Power is systematic
★★★★★ Power is systematic. We live …
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