# Japan Booksellers' Award winners, 2014–2025

Japan's Booksellers' Award (Hon'ya Taishō) is voted by bookshop staff for the book they most want to sell. These are the winners from 2014 to 2025.

- 4 votes · 12 items
- Dec 3, 2025 · Suzuki M.
- https://even.best/en/l/729/japan-booksellers-award-winners-2014-2025

## Top 12

1. **The Forest of Wool and Steel — Natsu Miyashita** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2016. A young man learning to become a piano tuner.
2. **The Wandering Moon — Yū Nagira** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2020. The 'victim' and 'perpetrator' of a kidnapping meet again.
3. **Murakami Kaizoku no Musume — Ryō Wada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2014. The Seto Inland Sea in the Warring States period and Kyō, daughter of the Murakami pirates.
4. **The Deer King — Nahoko Uehashi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2015. A fantasy about fighting a mysterious plague.
5. **Lonely Castle in the Mirror — Mizuki Tsujimura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. Seven schoolchildren brought to a castle behind a mirror.
6. **The Whales Who Sing at 52 Hertz — Sonoko Machida** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2021. People whose voices reach no one.
7. **Comrade Girl, Shoot the Enemy — Tōma Aisaka** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2022. A debut about Soviet women snipers in World War II.
8. **Nanji, Hoshi no Gotoku — Yū Nagira** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2023. Fifteen years of two people who met on an island in the Seto Inland Sea; Nagira's second win.
9. **Naruse Is Going to Take Over the World — Mina Miyajima** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2024. Akari Naruse, an unconventional schoolgirl in Ōtsu, Shiga.
10. **Cafuné — Akiko Abe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2025. A woman who has lost her brother and a housekeeper who changes her life.
11. **Honeybees and Distant Thunder — Riku Onda** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2017. Four young pianists at an international competition; it also won the Naoki Prize.
12. **And So the Baton Is Passed — Maiko Seo** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2019. The family story of a girl whose parents changed several times.

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