See here for methodology.
Title | Author | Goodreads raters | LibraryThing owners |
Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 2,012,062 | 36,568 |
Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | 613,482 | 16,355 |
Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 476,025 | 18,153 |
Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 483,266 | 6,599 |
1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 262,102 | 9,036 |
Shōgun | James Clavell | 185,339 | 8,065 |
Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi | 432,899 | 3,125 |
If I had continued the listing, seven of the next eight books are by Haruki Murakami.
The only one of these that I have read is Memoirs of a Geisha and I was pretty unsatisfied by it. The rest all seem legit enough – they are set in Japan or somewhere like it. Before the Coffee Gets Cold starts in Korea but at a quick glance spends most of the book on the other side of the straits.
Next: the Philippines, but since next Sunday is the last day of the month when I will do my usual book round-up, that will be in two weeks’ time.
India | China | USA | Indonesia | Pakistan | Nigeria | Brazil (revisited) | Bangladesh (revisited) | Russia | Mexico | Japan | Philippines (revisited) | Ethiopia (revisited) | Egypt | DR Congo | Vietnam | Iran | Türkiye | Germany | France | Thailand | UK | Tanzania | South Africa | Italy | Myanmar | Kenya | Colombia | South Korea | Sudan | Uganda | Spain | Algeria | Iraq | Argentina | Afghanistan