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10 best books like Cat Town (Sakutarō Hagiwara): Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, To Each His Own, A Fraction of the Whole, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods, The Pillow Book, 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity (Perigee Book), Colline, The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories, The Gate

Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
AuthorVandana Singh
ISBN1618731432
I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.

I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...
To Each His Own
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
ISBN0940322528
This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead. The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with a literary bent...
A Fraction of the Whole
AuthorSteve Toltz
ISBN0385521723
An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other and against the world.

For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
AuthorFlorent Chavouet
ISBN4805311371
Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth, with a pouch full of colored pencils and a sketchpad, to visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during...
The Pillow Book
AuthorSei Shōnagon
ISBN0231073372
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions.

Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile...
52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity (Perigee Book)
AuthorJeffrey Yamaguchi
ISBN0399532064
Jeffrey Yamaguchi extends an invitation to indulge one's inner artist by committing yourself to one creative project a week for 52 weeks. 52 Projects chronicles the author's artistic journey over the course of one year and how it changed his life-and also offers 52 jumping-off points for the reader's...
Colline
AuthorJean Giono
ISBN2253002895
Un débris de hameau où quatre maisons fleuries d'orchis émergent des blés drus et hauts. Ce sont les Bastides Blanches, à mi-chemin entre la plaine et le grand désert lavandier, à l'ombre des monts de Lure. C'est là que vivent douze personnes, deux ménages, plus Gagou l'innocent. Janet est...
The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
AuthorMarcel Schwob
ISBN0856354031
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and...
The Gate
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0720612500
One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the inability to have children, the couple find themselves having...
Herr Nakano und die Frauen
AuthorHiromi Kawakami
ISBN3446232745
»Wir handeln nicht mit Antiquitäten, wir handeln mit Trödel«, sagt Herr Nakano zu Hitomi, die sich um eine Aushilfsstelle in seinem Laden bewirbt. Der eigenwillige Nakano, ein Herr alter Schule, liebt neben schönen alten Dingen auch schöne junge Frauen. Sein Geschäft, eine Enklave in der...
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