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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • Named Best Novel and Best Mystery of the Year in Japan, this "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) thriller takes a journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and...



  • In Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe draws readers into the amorphous world of Internet chat rooms-a world of people from all walks of life attracted by the possibility of being whomever they want to be. Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged of...



  • Young, pretty Junko Aoki has an extraordinary ability she can start fires through sheer force of will. When she begins using her gift of pyrokinesis to take the law into her own hands and punish violent criminals, her executions attract the attention...



  • After his father abandons them and his mother tries to commit suicide, young Wataru decides to try to navigate the magical world of Vision, collecting five elusive gemstones along the way, in order to claim the Demon's Bane that will change his fate....




  • After his father abandons them and his mother tries to commit suicide, young Wataru decides to try to navigate the magical world of Vision, collecting five elusive gemstones along the way, in order to claim the Demon's Bane that will change his fate....



  • After his father abandons them and his mother tries to commit suicide, young Wataru decides to try to navigate the magical world of Vision, collecting five elusive gemstones along the way, in order to claim the Demon's Bane that will change his fate....




  • Young Wataru flees his messed-up life to navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. His ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journ...






  • When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, Yuriko finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by the evil King in Yellow, and that only...



  • When a boy named Ico grows long curved horns overnight, his fate has been sealed -- he is to be sacrificed in the Castle in the Mist. But in the castle, Ico meets a young girl named Yorda imprisoned in its halls. Alone they will die, but together Ico...



  • In old Edo, the past was never forgotten. It lived alongside the present, in dark corners, and in the shadows. In these tales, award-winning author Miyuki Miyabe explores the ghosts of Japan, and the spaces of the living world they inhabit. Written w...








  • A series of murders shocks Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, but Shigenori, a retired police detective, is instead obsessed with a gargoyle that seems to move. College freshman Kotaro launches a web-based investigation of the killer, and comes to find that an...


Award-Winning Books by Miyuki Miyabe

Brave Story
2008 Mildred L. Batchelder Award -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Miyuki Miyabe has published 18 books.

Miyuki Miyabe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Gate of Sorrows, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Miyuki Miyabe, All She Was Worth, was published in January 1992.

No. Miyuki Miyabe does not write books in series.