Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: Japan & Taiwan

She's in love with her best friend - the most famous woman in Japan.

This is my confession. The story of how Yumi and me became household names. Of how I fell in love with her and did everything in my power to protect her from evil.

I will not rest until you know the truth. All the lies the agencies and labels tried to make us spew will be known.

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Moving on doesn't come easy

Yumi has been through hell and back achieving her dreams of becoming a national pop sensation. Yet her ability to relate to her family – and herself – are slipping through her fingers as she grows older. Can she reconnect with the life inside her soul?

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A stand-alone novel, and the third installment in the Elemental series of romances set in Japan.

On the one-year anniversary of her son’s death, Sayuri finds herself on a subway station platform, and she doesn’t know how she got there.

Neither does Miwa, the station employee who has one eye on the lost and weary woman the moment their paths cross.

All it takes is one precarious step, and both Sayuri and Miwa are enveloped in a whirlwind relationship that brings them closer to the edge than ever before. For schoolteacher Sayuri, that means letting go of the life that is no longer hers to claim. For train enthusiast Miwa, it’s realizing that there is more to human existence than isolation and struggling to get by.

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High in the mountains of central Japan, there’s a town that makes it official business to invite in a host of spirits every summer…

Helen’s twin sister has drowned. After sixty years of relying on each other, Helen must now learn to not only work through her grief, but to embrace a life without the only person who ever mattered.

Fate brings her to Gujo, a secluded Japanese village that’s not only stuck in time, but is reliant on the unpredictable Nagara River, a reminder of Helen’s grief. Between this unhappy circumstance and being completely lost in a culture not her own, she could really use a friend…

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A true love trope rollercoaster of emotions.

The story of Holly and Brooke continues in this highly anticipated sequel to the number 1 best-selling sapphic romance novel Choose Me.

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Can a pragmatic proposal lead to true love?

Shy Miwa has always dreamed of finding love, but living in small-town Japan made finding the right match difficult—especially since she likes girls! Even going away to college didn’t seem to help, until one day her outgoing classmate Saeko suggests they might as well start dating each other since it’s not like either of them has other options.

A sexy cybernetic spy gets an upgrade that kicks her pleasure receptors into overdrive!

Super-spy Aiya Arakawa has the most powerful and sexiest cybernetic body on the planet. But when she gets an upgrade that kicks her pleasure receptors into overdrive, will she be able to handle her overwhelming desire as she confronts enemy AIs, sexy thieves, and android courtesans?

The Sex Raider must battle a Japanese sex goddess with insatiable desires!

Sexy tomb raider Laia Rios is off to Japan to find existence of a long lost Japanese goddess with her best friend Keiko. But when the goddess demands intense sexual submission to satisfy her insatiable desires, will Laia be able to save her friend?

The exile asked the empress, "How would you have me love you?"

Outsider is a contemporary novel set in Japan and New Zealand that follows the connections between a light artist, a video game-obsessed businessman, a writer who refuses to speak, and a the star of a gender-bending host bar. For fans of Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Ali Smith’s How to be Both, Jade du Preez’s Outsider is a rich, stylish, engrossing read that convincingly blurs the boundaries between fact and fable.

A forced vacation was the last place Laurie expected to find love.

Being sent on a mandatory vacation to a beautiful island in the Caribbean was the worst thing Laurie could imagine. But the best was waiting for her when she climbed aboard a trimaran to meet the charming, sexy, adventurous Katia. If they could shrink the world, they’d be set!

The candid tell-all of a young woman’s struggles with depression and sexuality that has taken the internet by storm!

Sky needs breathing room.

A fluffy, cotton candy slice-of-life paranormal romance!

Tags: bisexual + human Sky, witchy Nyssa, benevolent yuki-onna Yuki, sweet romance, poly is the solution not the problem, all the gooey feelings, happy ending, adults communicating

Far from her Midwestern roots, Kathleen Schmitt is living in Tokyo as the project head for Personal Love Companion, a synthetic love robot made to match a customer's preference in personality and appearance.

American-born engineer for the PLC project, Yuriko is sympathetic to Kathleen’s difficulties adjusting to Tokyo’s culture, but quickly realizes Kathleen will need her help if this transition—and the PLC project—is to be a success. With Yuriko to show her the way, Kathleen learns to socialize at an izakaya, find the best onsen in Nikko, party at a matsuri, buy doujinshii in Akihabara, fall in love with Japan, and, perhaps, fall for the person who showed it to her.

Ordinary Rose is seduced by unordinary Cindy... down the rabbit hole she goes.

Concierge clerk Rose knows that building tenant Cindy Ling is unlike any other woman she’s met. When Cindy finally seduces Rose, it’s neither surprising nor unwanted – instead, it’s Rose’s awakening.

She’s already in love. So is Cindy. Except Cindy has a secret that might ruin all she and Rose hope to achieve.

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New York Review Books Classics

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love.