# The best Miyuki Miyabe novels

Miyuki Miyabe's classics that top reader polls and bookstore rankings, from social mysteries to period fiction and fantasy.

- 18 votes · 15 items
- Sep 12, 2025 · moviejunkie_wandering
- https://even.best/en/l/2546/the-best-miyuki-miyabe-novels

## Top 15

1. **The Copycat Killer** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2001. A huge multi-voiced novel about serial abductions. Shiba Ryōtarō Prize.
2. **The Sleeping Dragon / Majutsu wa Sasayaku** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1989. Winner of the Japan Mystery Suspense Award.
3. **Brave Story** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2003. A boy tries to change his fate in another world.
4. **Solomon's Perjury** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2012. Junior high students hold their own trial.
5. **All She Was Worth** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1992. A vanished fiancée and credit-card debt. Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
6. **Riyū** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1998. A family murdered in a tower block. Naoki Prize.
7. **Perfect Blue** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1989. Her debut novel, narrated by Masa, a retired police dog.
8. **Ryū wa Nemuru** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1991. A psychic boy and a journalist.
9. **Level 7** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1990. A man and a woman with no memory and a mysterious phrase.
10. **Gamōtei Jiken** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1996. Time travel to the February 26 Incident.
11. **Osoroshi (Mishima-ya series)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2008. The first book of her popular period series.
12. **Na mo Naki Doku** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2006. A Saburō Sugimura novel. Yoshikawa Eiji Prize.
13. **Rakuen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2007. Shigeko Maehata from The Copycat Killer returns.
14. **Stepfather Step** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1993. A comic mystery about a thief and twin boys.
15. **Kogure Shashinkan** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2010. A family living in an old photo studio.

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