The best Miyuki Miyabe novels
The top 3 according to 18 votes from people: The Copycat Killer · The Sleeping Dragon / Majutsu wa Sasayaku · Brave Story. (Updated Sep 12, 2025.)
Miyuki Miyabe's classics that top reader polls and bookstore rankings, from social mysteries to period fiction and fantasy.
Automatically translated (original in 日本語). See the original
Top 15
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1
The Copycat Killer
2001. A huge multi-voiced novel about serial abductions. Shiba Ryōtarō Prize.
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2
The Sleeping Dragon / Majutsu wa Sasayaku
1989. Winner of the Japan Mystery Suspense Award.
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3
Brave Story
2003. A boy tries to change his fate in another world.
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4
Solomon's Perjury
2012. Junior high students hold their own trial.
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5
All She Was Worth
1992. A vanished fiancée and credit-card debt. Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize.
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6
Riyū
1998. A family murdered in a tower block. Naoki Prize.
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7
Perfect Blue
1989. Her debut novel, narrated by Masa, a retired police dog.
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8
Ryū wa Nemuru
1991. A psychic boy and a journalist.
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9
Level 7
1990. A man and a woman with no memory and a mysterious phrase.
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10
Gamōtei Jiken
1996. Time travel to the February 26 Incident.
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11
Osoroshi (Mishima-ya series)
2008. The first book of her popular period series.
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12
Na mo Naki Doku
2006. A Saburō Sugimura novel. Yoshikawa Eiji Prize.
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13
Rakuen
2007. Shigeko Maehata from The Copycat Killer returns.
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14
Stepfather Step
1993. A comic mystery about a thief and twin boys.
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15
Kogure Shashinkan
2010. A family living in an old photo studio.
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