Historical Japanese Fiction

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Snapshot taken from Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers in Historical Japanese Fiction

  • Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel book cover
  • Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) book cover
  • The Burning God (The Poppy War Book 3) book cover
  • The Girls of Pearl Harbor book cover
  • The Amulet: A heart-breaking novel of love and loss set in WW2 Singapore book cover
  • Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan (The Asian Saga Book 1) book cover
  • The Poppy War: A Novel book cover
  • Pacific on Fire: Breathtaking Fighter Action Over Japan book cover
  • Bel Canto (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) book cover
  • Convenience Store Woman: A Novel book cover
  • Cryptonomicon book cover
  • The Spirit of the Dragon book cover
  • When the Future Comes Too Soon (The Malayan saga) book cover
  • Hawaii: A Novel book cover
  • All We Left Behind: A heartbreaking and gripping historical novel book cover
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls book cover
  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel book cover
  • Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International) book cover
  • Killing Commendatore: A novel book cover
  • The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War Book 2) book cover
  • Daughter of Moloka'i: A Novel book cover
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel book cover
  • The Homecoming book cover
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Contemporaries) book cover
  • In the Midst of Winter: A Novel book cover
  • The Buddha in the Attic book cover
  • Gai-Jin (Asian Saga Book 3) book cover
  • Gone to Soldiers: A Novel book cover
  • Silent Honor: A Novel book cover
  • The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel book cover
  • The Great Fire: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics) book cover
  • The Last Word: A Novel Of The War In The Pacific book cover
  • Noble House (Asian Saga Book 5) book cover
  • Disturbance in the Wake book cover
  • Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era book cover
  • The Thin Red Line (The World War II Trilogy Book 2) book cover
  • The Library of Legends: A Novel book cover
  • My Name Is Red (Vintage International) book cover
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel book cover
  • Prisoner from Penang: The moving sequel to The Pearl of Penang book cover
  • Silent Warriors: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific book cover
  • White Chrysanthemum book cover
  • Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America (The Bone Rattler Series Book 1) book cover
  • The Final Storm: A Novel of the War in the Pacific (A Novel of World War II Book 4) book cover
  • The Great Passage book cover
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel (Vintage International) book cover
  • An Artist of the Floating World (Vintage International) book cover
  • Satori book cover
  • When the Emperor Was Divine book cover
  • Red Sky Over Hawaii: A Novel book cover
  • Rashomon and Other Stories (Tuttle Classics) book cover
  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel book cover
  • Ghosts of Bungo Suido: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels) book cover
  • Bridge of Scarlet Leaves book cover
  • Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel book cover
  • China Dolls: A Novel book cover
  • Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors book cover
  • Sayonara: A Novel book cover
  • Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel book cover
  • The Gift of Rain: A Novel book cover
  • Treason in Tokyo (Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa Book 3) book cover
  • Shadows of Tokyo (Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa Book 1) book cover
  • The Samurai's Garden: A Novel book cover
  • Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers book cover
  • The Magic of Ordinary Days book cover
  • Shanghai Dreams: (Shanghai Story Book Two) A WWII Drama Trilogy book cover
  • The Long Ships (New York Review Books Classics) book cover
  • The Confusion: Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle book cover
  • The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle book cover
  • What's Left of Me Is Yours: A Novel book cover
  • The Song of the Wild Geese: A Historical Romance Novel (The Geisha Who Ran Away Book 1) book cover
  • Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga book cover
  • This World is Ours: A Historical Romance Novel (The Geisha Who Ran Away Book 3) book cover
  • Smoke Over Tokyo (Reiko Watanabe / Inspector Aizawa Book 2) book cover
  • Lady of the Imperial City book cover
  • The Green Hell: A Novel of the Army's Pacific War book cover
  • The Hidden Flower: A Novel book cover
  • The Language of Threads: A Novel book cover
  • The Little House book cover
  • The Samurai's Heart (The Heart Of The Samurai Book 1) book cover
  • Sweet Bean Paste book cover
  • The Lost Future of Pepperharrow book cover
  • Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II book cover
  • Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1 (Vintage International) book cover
  • Firefly: A Japanese Historical Fiction Novel (Warrior Woman of the Samurai Book 1) book cover
  • A New Place (Cannibal Country Trilogy, Book 3) book cover
  • The Russian Concubine (A Russian Concubine Novel) book cover
  • Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) book cover
  • Portrait in Sepia: A Novel book cover
  • Shogun (Asian Saga Book 1) book cover
  • I Am A Cat (Tuttle Classics) book cover
  • Perfidia: A novel book cover
  • The Street of a Thousand Blossoms: A Novel book cover
  • Dragonfly Wings: A Historical Novel of Japan (Dragonfly Trilogy Book 2) book cover
  • The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth Trilogy Book 2) book cover
  • Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America book cover
  • The White Book book cover
  • The Secret of the Nightingale Palace: A Novel book cover
  • A Place Called Home (Cannibal Country Trilogy, Book 2) book cover
  • Silk (Vintage International) book cover
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Authors

Authors with:

16 authors with more than one book:

  • 5 - James Clavell
  • 3 - R. F. Kuang
  • 3 - Isabel Allende
  • 3 - Lisa See
  • 3 - Matthew Legare
  • 3 - Gail Tsukiyama
  • 3 - India Millar
  • 2 - Ann Bennett
  • 2 - Neal Stephenson
  • 2 - James A. Michener
  • 2 - Haruki Murakami
  • 2 - Julie Otsuka
  • 2 - James Jones
  • 2 - Sara Ackerman
  • 2 - Pearl S. Buck
  • 2 - Andrew Wareham

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Series & Titles

Standalone vs Series

Popular Words

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Series in the chart

  • Asian Saga (Book 3, Book 5, Book 1)
  • The Poppy War (Book 3, Book 2)
  • The Geisha Who Ran Away (Book 1, Book 3)
  • The Asian Saga (Book 1)
  • The World War II Trilogy (Book 2)
  • The Bone Rattler Series (Book 1)
  • A Novel of World War II (Book 4)
  • The Heart Of The Samurai (Book 1)
  • Warrior Woman of the Samurai (Book 1)
  • Dragonfly Trilogy (Book 2)
  • Old Filth Trilogy (Book 2)

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