Natsume Soseki

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1989
  • Latest Book:
    July 2026
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Books in Order: 20 titles

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  • An Undesirable Friend

  • I Am a Cat

    I, ladies and gentlemen, am a cat. I still don???t have a name. Once a stray kitten, the narrator of this story is now a noble and insightful observer of the bizarre and funny foibles of the human beings in his midst. Enter the upper middle-class wor...

  • I Am a Cat: Volume One

    Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City.'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...' Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted by a local ...

  • The Miner

    The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of the great Japanese writer Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916). Written in 1908, it explores the indeterminate nature of human personality. An absurdist tale, in many respects, The Mine...

  • Poppy

    This melodrama explores the tangled relationships among friends and families in Meiji-era Japan. Six young men and women grapple with their futures in a country moving from traditional to modern ways. Poppy (Gubijinsō) was the first book publish...

  • Ten Nights' Dreams and Our Cat's Grave

    Ten Nights' Dreams (夢十夜, Yume Jūya) is a classic written work from the Japanese master Natsume Soseki. Originally published in 1908, it announced the emergence in Japanese literature of a modernist and impressionistic mode. ...

  • Ten Nights Dreaming

    A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dream-like, open-ended tales by the father of Japane...

  • Light and Dark

    Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and ex...

  • Botchan

    A hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, Natsume Soseki's Botchan has enjoyed a timeless popularity in Japan. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English...



  • The Gate

    An NYRB Classics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and u...

  • The Three-Cornered World

    A key work in the Japanese transition from traditional to modern literature "Walking up a mountain track, I fell to thinking.Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept awa...

  • Light and Darkness

    Japan's preeminent modern novelist, Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916), may be better known for his works of fiction Kokoro, Botchan, and I Am a Cat, than for his last novel, Meian, uncompleted at his death, which remains something of an enigma -- a neglect...

  • Sanshiro

    Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic,...

  • Kokoro

    “Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”  -- Haruki MurukamiOne of the best-selling novels of all time in Japan: a modern classic about love, loneliness and profound social changeA classi...

  • Kusamakura

    A stunning new English translation -- the first in more than forty years -- of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction

    Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura -- meaning “grass pillow” -- follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a ...

  • Ten Nights' Dreams

    This collection of ten connected stories or dreams has a surrealistic atmosphere. Some are weird, others are grotesquely funny. Among the ten nights, the first, second, third, and fifth nights start with the same sentence This is the dream I dreamed....

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  • I am a Cat Volume 1



  • Botcham

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    Botchan is one of Japan's most popular novels for young people for its meditations upon Japanese culture, lively characters, and coming-of-age theme.The titular character is a young, headstrong and reckless youth who is nevertheless possessed of a se...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Natsume Soseki has published 20 books.

The next book by Natsume Soseki, An Undesirable Friend, will be published in July 2026.

The first book by Natsume Soseki, I am a Cat Volume 1, was published in December 1989.

No. Natsume Soseki does not write books in series.
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