If You Like Manga

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan – Aimee Major Steinberger
This is the true story of a Japanese pop culture fanatic’s trip to Japan.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – Nagaru Tanigawa
In this novel based on the manga, a girl decides she’s not interested in “ordinary humans,” and forms a club for aliens, time travelers, and other supernatural beings.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit – Nahoko Uehashi
The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster, and the prince’s father, the Mikado.
Missing in Tokyo — Graham Marks
When his older sister is reported missing, teenager Adam travels from England to Tokyo, Japan, to look for her.
Half World — Hiromi Goto
Although Melanie is a poor outcast, she is managing to hold things together until the day she returns home to find that her mother has been lured back to Half World. What follows is a darkly fantastic journey as she tries to save her mother and much more.
Chibi Vampire: The Novel — Tohru Kai
The much talked-about manga is now a supernatural-love-comedy-mystery novel starring our favorite clumsy blood injector, Karin!
CLAMP School Paranormal Investigators – Tomiyuki Matsumoto
Five students run a study group to explore mysterious and unexplained phenomena. Filled with action, mystery, twists, turns, and clues, this new novel series will have readers believing the truth “is out there.”
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
As the eldest of 3 sisters in a land where that is considered unlucky, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until she is turned into an old women and finds herself in the castle of a greatly-feared wizard called Howl.
The Waking: Dreams of the Dead – Thomas Randall
After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Kara and her father move to Japan where she becomes haunted by a series of frightening nightmares and deaths that might be revenge or something even worse…
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One Response to “If You Like Manga”

  1. I would also recommend The Weeping Empress by Sadie S. Forsythe. I’ve read that she got the idea for the plot after watching an anime. It does have a very anime/manga feel to it.

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