Hideo Kojima's List of Recommended Books from "The Creative Gene" Public
Created by Babel Molotov
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Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan (Giants, #01)
4 stars
The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly …
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Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane (Kenzie & Gennaro, #02)
4 stars
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying …
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5 stars
This is the story of a young boy called Peter, who is knocked down by a car. To his considerable …
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Life, death, karma—these interwoven themes form the heart of this lyrical novel in letters, Kinshu: Autumn Brocade, the first work …
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The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
4 stars
In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist …
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Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker (Spenser, #07)
4 stars
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires …
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
4 stars
A timeless tale of suspense in which ten strangers, each with a dark secret, arc mysteriously invited to a house …
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The Moon over the Mountain by 中島敦
Ancient China is illustriously brought to life in these folk tales, legends, and stories of historical figures that routinely rank …
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阪急電車 by Hiro Arikawa
恋の始まり、別れの兆し、そして途中下車…。8駅から成る、 片道わずか15分間の阪急電鉄今津線で、駅ごとに乗り降りする乗客の物語。 人生の決定的な瞬間が鮮やかに描かれた傑作。
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母親と二人で東京に住む小学生のハヤトは、同じ団地のトンダじいさんから「一生に一度のお願い」を預かる。それは古いオルゴールを鹿児島に届けること。福知山線の事故現場、広島の原爆ドーム、父さんの再婚とお腹の大きな女の人――出会うものすべてに価値観を揺さぶられながら、少年は旅を続けていく。直木賞作家が紡ぎ出す心温まる成長物語。親が子どもに読ませたい本。
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3 stars
It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three …
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Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami
5 stars
Rescued from the lockers in which they were left to die as infants and raised to freely follow their ambitions, …
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Virus: The Day of Resurrection by Sakyo Komatsu
1 star
A mysterious virus wipes out all of humanity, save for researchers in the frigid Antarctic. To save what is left …
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江戸・天明年間、シケに遭って黒潮に乗ってしまった男たちは、不気味な沈黙をたもつ絶海の火山島に漂着した。水も湧かず、生活の手段とてない無人の島で、仲間の男たちは次次と倒れて行ったが、土佐の船乗り長平はただひとり生き残って、12年に及ぶ苦闘の末、ついに生還する。その生存の秘密と、壮絶な生きざまを巨細に描いて圧倒的感動を呼ぶ、長編ドキュメンタリー小説。
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4 stars
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer …
