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5 Centimeters per Second cover
Rating 3.8
5 Centimeters per Second 新海诚 / 季丽晔 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 5 Centimeters per Second consists of three connected short stories—Cherry Blossom Extract, Astronaut, and 5 Centimeters per Second—that gradually unfo…
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Rating 4.0
Blanket Cat 重松清 / 汤晓帆 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 Written by Naoki Prize winner Shigematsu Kiyoshi, Blanket Cat is a "cute cat" tale. It tells how seven blanket-wrapped cats, over a three-day, two-nig…
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Rating 4.1
The Ginza Ghost: Selected Masterpieces of Japanese Mystery Fiction 大阪圭吉 · 2026 This work is an anthology of classic prewar Japanese short-form honkaku mystery fiction, featuring Osaka Keikichi's celebrated stories "The Department…
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Rating 3.0
A Tall Ship Bartimeus, 1886-1967 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures cover
Rating 2.7
Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures Franklin, Edgar, 1879-1958 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.0
Dubliners James Joyce / Sun Liang / 宗博 / 智量 East China Normal University Press · 2017 Dubliners consists of fifteen short stories. Through realist and satirical techniques, it depicts the lives of Dublin's lower-middle classes in the ea…
Sarah Pinsker Collection (2-Volume Boxed Set, Produced by Science Fiction World, World Science Fiction Masters Series) cover
Rating 4.3
Sarah Pinsker Collection (2-Volume Boxed Set, Produced by Science Fiction World, World Science Fiction Masters Series) 莎拉·平斯克 TIANDI PRESS · 2026 Two-volume set, including The New Day Song and Wandering the Long Wind
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Rating 4.0
Everyone Is a Famous Detective 大山诚一郎 / 曹逸冰 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025 Detective Wato Sōshi possesses a special ability: he can instantly boost the deductive powers of everyone around him! He becomes embroiled in a series…
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Rating 3.9
Angel of the Ruined Garden II: The Scarred Girl 飞浩隆 / 丁丁虫 Sichuan Science and Technology Press · 2026 This is the second book in the Ruined Garden Angel series, filling in details from the previous volume, Ruined Garden Angel I: Long Holiday, through a…
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Rating 4.0
A Petal of River 雨楼清歌 New Star Press · 2025 A duel to the death twelve years in the making; a pear-blossom painting that gathers ten thousand miles of rivers and streams. Blue eyes mirroring sno…
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Rating 3.8
Land of Monsters 邱常婷 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 Her style—wild, free, and blending many elements—feels like the birth of a new species. It breaks free of the boundary between good and evil and cross…
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Rating 2.5
Breaking the Precepts 大咸鱼 · 2025 Breaking the Vow is a collection of flash xianxia stories. The title story follows a cultivator named Xuanyan, who, after being abandoned by his wife …
The Casebook of Umon (Complete Six Volumes) cover
Rating 3.6
The Casebook of Umon (Complete Six Volumes) 佐佐木味津三 · 2025 Set in Japan's Edo period, this series follows the investigative exploits of the constable Kondo Umon (known as "Taciturn Umon") and his subordinate D…
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Rating 3.6
Hell's Envoy: The Soichiro Hoki Cases Unno Jūza · 2025 Hosomura Rokuki is drawn into a bizarre murder case. Tazuhata Tsuruhiko is found dead in the mansion, and Doi Mitsuko becomes the prime suspect becaus…
The Blossoms Will Fade cover
Rating 3.5
The Blossoms Will Fade 伽古屋圭市 / 李盈春 · 2025 The renowned beauty painter Moshijiro has a special eye for people: every subject he chooses has a hidden past. Does the woman sucking nectar from aza…
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part One): The Ballroom Murder Case cover
Rating 3.8
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part One): The Ballroom Murder Case Sakaguchi Ango / Qiyaoxing · 2025 Meiji Kaika Ango Torimonochō (Series 1): The Ballroom Murder Case
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part Three): The Great Wolf Deity cover
Rating 3.8
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part Three): The Great Wolf Deity Sakaguchi Ango / Qiyaoxing · 2025 In the turbulent years of the Meiji Restoration, hearts were restless and society was in upheaval, and a string of mysterious and bizarre cases occurr…
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part Two): Beneath the Stone cover
Rating 3.8
Meiji Enlightenment: Ango's Detective Stories (Part Two): Beneath the Stone Sakaguchi Ango / Qiyaoxing · 2025 Set in the extraordinary era of the Meiji Restoration, when hearts were restless and society in turmoil, strange and mysterious cases occur one after …
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Rating 3.9
You Will Die in Six Hours 高野和明 / 张静乔 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024 This book is a rare collection of high-concept speculative mystery short stories by Japanese mystery master Kazuaki Takano, author of The 13th Step. I…
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Rating 3.8
Their Private Lives 迪莎·菲利亚夫 / 凌晨 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Their Private Lives consists of nine stories about women as daughters, mothers, grandmothers, wives, and lovers—their identity anxieties and life circ…