If you’re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o’clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly.
That’s who I am.’

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, is a novel about Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who is condemned by Communists to spend the rest of his life confined in the Metropol, the capital’s most glamorous hotel.

The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is “real”

Murakami’s “After Dark” is about a young woman called Mari Asai who encounters several people in one night in downtown Tokyo. Through her interactions with these other characters, Mari is able to form a closer connection with her sister and also learn more about herself.

This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare’s first novel.

Kafka on the Shore interweaves between two parallel plots to tell the story of Kafka Tamura — a 15-year-old boy who runs away from home to escape an Oedipal curse and Nakata — an elderly Japanese man who has an uncanny ability to speak to cats due to a childhood accident and who spends his days locating and returning …

Birthday Stories is a 2002 short story anthology edited by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Despite the theme’s happy connotations most of the short stories have a dark, melancholic atmosphere.