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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Yōko Ogawa

180 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Miss Meteor by Anna-Marie McLemore, Tehlor Kay Mejia

Miss Meteor

Anna-Marie McLemore, Tehlor Kay Mejia

400 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ magical realism young adult adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibañez

Written in Starlight

Woven in Moonlight #2

Isabel Ibañez

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous slow-paced
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

491 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

213 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Bear and the Nightingale

Winternight Trilogy #1

Katherine Arden

322 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The Life Affirming One Million copy Bestseller by Hiro Arikawa

The Travelling Cat Chronicles: The Life Affirming One Million copy Bestseller

Hiro Arikawa

256 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional slow-paced
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

374 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical emotional informative sad medium-paced
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri

180 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

13 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative tense slow-paced