Books read so far

These are all the books I’ve read and for which I wrote a book review, the more recent reviews are displayed first. Please ignore my older reviews, they are really badly written haha. I like keeping them as a way to keep track of the books I read in Japanese.

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Cover of 日本探偵小説全集1. The cover has a dark brown background with four pictures (of dolls and mechanisms) at the center. It says that this volume contains works by three authors: Ruiko Kuroiwa, Fuboku Kosakai and Saburo Koga.

真赤な子犬 (まっかなこいぬ)

ゼロの焦点 (ぜろのしょうてん)

孤独の罠（こどくのわな）

点と線 (てんとせん)

内部の真実 (ないぶのしんじつ)

Cover of 七年目の脅迫状. Illustration: a brown horse is grazing on a green background.

応家の人々

焦茶色のパステル (こげちゃいろのぱすてる)

Cover of 中のいい死体. Cover illustration: several objects are drawn on an orange background: grapes, a police hat, a bag of medicine and a comb.

99%の誘拐 (きゅうじゅうきゅうぱーせんとのゆうかい）

あした天気にしておくれ（あしたてんきにしておくれ)

Cover of 長い長い眠り. Cover illustration: A green background with several objects drawn on it: a shirt and pants, glasses, a handwritten message, a lamp…

解決まではあと6人 (かいけつまではあとろくにん)

ひげのある男たち (ひげのあるおとこたち)

北斎殺人事件 (ほくさいさつじんじけん)

Cover of 針の誘い. On a red background, the picture of a very young child sitting and facing towards us. There is a black rectangle across the child’s eyes, as it to conceal her identity.

Cover of 赤の組曲, showing a what looks like an ink painting of trees. It’s covered with filling colours (blue and pink) which makes the painting difficult to see.

Cover of 13階段. Cover illustration: In a very dark cave, we are facing stone stairs that go up towards the light.

Cover of 十字架のカルテ.

Cover of 白い衝動.

Cover of シャイロックの子供たち.

Cover of 奇譚ルーム. Cover illustration: on a black background, there is a white door in the middle of the cover with a teddy bear dressed in a detective suit looking at us in the door way. There are all kinds of objects flying around.

Cover of 七回死んだ男. The cover illustration is very dark and it’s only possible to make out some lights and buildings by night.

Cover of 殺人現場は雲の上. The cover is black with just the title and name of the author printed in a big white font across the cover.

Cover of 伝説なき地, showing a river winding through trees in the sunset light. The river is a bright orange, so is the sky. The trees surrounding the river are pitch black.

Cover of 絆. Covver illustration: Black silhouette of a woman standing and turned to the right. The background could be waves.

Cover of カディスの赤い星. Cover illustration: picture of a man playing classical guitar, but the picture is blurred.

Cover of 写楽殺人事件.

Cover of 白光. Cover illustration: a background of blurred leaves with white light coming through them and pink flowers on the foreground.

Cover of 背いて故郷. The cover illustration depicts a round rearview mirror on a grey sky. In the reflection of the mirror, there is a man standing near a road.

Cover of チョコレートゲーム. The focus of the cover image is a small desk and two chairs facing the desk, typically the kind that are used in classrooms. On the table there is some kind of board game involving chocolate bars. There are also bank notes and chocolate around it.

渇きの町 (かわきのまち)

天山を越えて (てんざんをこえて)

Cover of “Wの悲劇”.

蒸発 (じょうはつ)

Cover of アリスの国の殺人. On a bright pink background, a picture of Alice from Alice in Wonderland. She is wearing a wedding veil, and she is surrounded by small objects related to Alice’s universe (cups of tea, trump cards, books…). The Cheshire Cat Is also behind Alice.

Cover of “Terminal satsujin jiken”. On the cover is a picture taken by night of Ueno Station.

Cover of 白ゆき姫殺人事件. The drawing on the cover shows a woman lying on the ground, eyes closed, certainly dead, facing the camera. Around her, we see the feet of all the onlookers, some are taking pictures with their phone.

Cover of 乱れからく. The cover design are drawings of different mechanisms, a house that looks like a toy, a statue with a key and some mathematic formulas.

華麗なる醜聞 (かれいなるしゅうぶん)

Cover of “Ore tachi babulu nyukogumi”. The cover is a drawing of a salaryman seen from behind. He is holding his jacket over his shoulder and his looking at a building across the street.

Cover of the book “satsui to iu na no kachiku”. The cover is very plain, just two horizontal red stripes at the top and bottom. The rest is beige with the title and name of the author written in black. It looks like a generic cover for a digital edition.

夜の終わる時 (よるのおわるとき)

影の告発 (かげのこくはつ)

細い赤い糸 (ほそいあかいいと)

The cover of 人喰い. The cover is very simple: on a completely black background, two thick horizontal blue lines and the name of the author and the title of the book written in red on the black background. No illustration.

黒い白鳥 (くろいはくちょう)

七つの会議 (ななつのかいぎ)