top grossing Novels
Real World by Natsuo Kirino
Plot: In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls trudge through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions. Our MCs Toshi, the dependable one; Terauchi, the good student; Yuzan, the grieving one and Kirarin, the seemingly sweet one, have their world turned up side down when Toshi’s next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor’s son, a high school boy they nickname Worm. But when he flees, taking Toshi’s bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in dangers they never could have ever imagined. |
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Plot: Aomame follows a strange taxi driver's suggestions about puzzling goings on in the world around her. Suddenly, she realizes she has entered a parallel existence a world she calls "1Q84." Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a weird writing project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its author that, soon, his monotonous life begins to coe apart around him. |
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Plot:Sometime in not so distant furture Japan, a country now terrorized by teens cause many adults to live in fear. Every day children are skipping school, getting into fights, prostitution, drugs, gambling, alcohol, asulting adults, robbing, and vandalizing. Eventually, the government takes a stand, banning anything that might influence violence such as certain genres of music, clothing, goods imported from other countries, and even hairstyles in an effort to resume control. But in addition to this over-the-top prohibition, every year a class of 42 high school students are taken to an abandoned island, given lethal weapons, and instructed to kill each other, until only 1 remains. |