Books Set in Japan
Novels and stories set in Japan, mostly samurai & feudal japan, historical fiction and horror. The most-read are Shōgun (1975), Kokoro (1914) and Seta (1920).
This list collects 163 books in this collection by 120 authors, published between 1871 and 2022. 3 are free to read and 1 has a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Shōgun
James Clavell
Kokoro
夏目漱石, Yoko Ogihara
Seta
Alessandro Baricco
- FREE
Kwaidan
Lafcadio Hearn
Confessions of a Mask
三島由紀夫, Meredith Weatherby
Rising Sun
Michael Crichton
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
The Key to Midnight
Dean Koontz
Dark Watch
Clive Cussler, Jack du Brul
Night of the Ninjas
Mary Pope Osborne
The Girl From The Well (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Rin Chupeco
Gai-Jin (Asian Saga
James Clavell
Dragon of the Red Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne
The Samurai's garden
Gail Tsukiyama
Kinjiki
三島由紀夫, Noriko Thunman
Il Segreto Dei Tre Samurai
Elisabetta Dami
- FREE
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Raoul Vitale
Crow Boy
Tarō Yashima
The Samurai's Tale
Erik Christian Haugaard
- FREE🎧
In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
Ring
Kōji Suzuki
Young Samurai
Chris Bradford
Usagi Yojimbo
Stan Sakai
Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn, Mercedes Nunez
Tales of old Japan
A. B. Mitford
Kinslayer
Jay Kristoff
Hi No Tori
手塚 治虫
Samurai
Shūsaku Endō
Blade of the Immortal
Hiroaki Samura
Lone Wolf and Cub
小池一夫, 小島剛夕
Fire and Ice
Anne Stuart
Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus
The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
Sisters of the Sword
Maya Snow
Sam Samurai
Jon Scieszka
The Boy of the Three-Year Nap
Dianne Snyder
Rasen No Kakera
Kaimu Tachibana
Choose Your Own Adventure - The Secret of the Ninja
Jay Leibold
Rising Sun / The Andromeda Strain / Binary
Michael Crichton
Bundori
Laura Joh Rowland
The Demon in the Teahouse
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
Dreaming Spies
Laurie R. King
Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Yuji Oniki
MPD-Psycho
Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima
Of Nightingales That Weep
Katherine Paterson
Flame in the Mist
Renée Ahdieh
The World of the Shining Prince
Ivan I. Morris
Honba
三島由紀夫