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  • The title is relatively long, but it sums up the whole story well. Tsukuru had four best friends at high school. Aside from him, their last names all contained a color. The two boys were called “Blue” and “Red”, while the girls’ names were “White”…
    Book, 2014Toronto : Bond Street Books, 2014. — F MUR
  • Murakami is a Japanese writer. Many of his books are a mix of fantasy and reality, which he uses to explore themes like loneliness, alienation and self-discovery in an interesting and imaginative way. Also, his works often include references to…
    Book, 2017Toronto : Bond Street Books, 2017. — F MUR
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a 1925 novel capturing the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America’s Jazz Age. It depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway’s interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. Gatsby…
    Book, 2023Blackstone Publishing 2023/10 — F FIT
  • Viktor Frankl was not only an Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist, but also a Holocaust survivor. “Man's Search for Meaning” is a 1946 book describing his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in the first section, and his…
    Book, 2006Boston : Beacon Press, [2006] — 150.195 FRA
  • “Love in the Time of Cholera” is a novel written in Spanish by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985. The settings, which takes place between the late 1870s and the early 1930s in an unnamed port city of South American…
    Book, 2003New York : Vintage International, 2003, c1988. — F GAR
  • This novel by Milan Kundera, first published in 1984 in English and French translations. Then in 1985, the work was released in the original Czech, but it was banned in Czechoslovakia until 1989. The story is set against the background of the…
    Book, 2009New York : Harperperennial, 2009. — F KUN
  • “Of Mice and Men” is a 1937 novella written by John Steinbeck. It narrates the experiences of George Milton, a smart but restless man, and Lennie Small, a bulky, strong but mentally challenged man. During the Great Depression in the United States,…
    Book, 1993New York : Penguin Books, 1993. — F STE
  • Fear

    Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm

    Nhất Hạnh, Thích.
    Having heard numerous commendations about Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the most influential spiritual figures of our era, I decided to begin with his work Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm. In this book, he delved into the roots of our…
    Book, 2012New York : HarperOne, 2012. — 294.3442 NHA
  • Spy × Family is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo. In order to maintain the state of peace between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalian agent code-named “Twilight” is tasked with spying on the leader…
    Book, 2020San Francisco, California : VIZ Media, LLC, [2020] — Y GN END #1
  • Book, 2012New York : Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, [2012] — Y GN ISA #1
  • Thinking About Thinking

    Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings

    Snider, Grant
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Abrams, Inc. (Harry N. Abrams), 2025 — GN SNI
  • Yoshitake is my favorite picture book author!
    Book, 2019San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2019. — E YOS