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No Longer Human (Paperback) By Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translated by) $14.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic (Hardcover) By Chronicle Books, Kotaro Chiba (Illustrator) $24.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Tale of Genji: The Authentic First Translation of the World's Earliest Novel (Tuttle Classics) (Paperback) By Murasaki Shikibu, Kencho Suematsu (Translator), Michael Emmerich (Foreword by) $12.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Tale of Genji (Abridged / Paperback) By Murasaki Shikibu, Royall Tyler (Translated by), Royall Tyler (Editor), Royall Tyler (Abridged by) $17.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Sun and Steel (Paperback) By Yukio Mishima $28.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	The Setting Sun (Paperback) By Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translated by) $14.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover) By Chronicle Books, Ulla Thynell (Illustrator) $24.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	The Factory (Paperback) By Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (Translated by) $13.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	The Hole (Paperback) By Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (Translated by) $12.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback) By Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby (Translated by) $15.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Sun and Steel (Hardcover) By Yukio Mishima $39.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Soseki Natsume's I Am a Cat: The Manga Edition: The Tale of a Cat with No Name But Great Wisdom! (Abridged / Paperback) By Soseki Natsume, Chiroru Kobato (Illustrator), Zack Davisson (Translator) $14.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong