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ARTS / LITERATURE
List: Top 10 Bestselling Books in Japan in 2009
Date: 31st December 2009
Source: Kinokuniya bookstore chain
Base: All book sales during the year within the Kinokuniya chain - sorry, no data on number of sales but the list is in ranked order.
Notes: Haruki Murakami took first and third position with volumes I and II of his three part novel IQ84. The first volume had sold well over 2.2 million copies of by mid-December 2009. It was the first fiction work to top the bestsellers list since 1990.
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Author
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1Q84: Book 1
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Haruki Murakami
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Frequently Mistaken Kanji that we Should be Able to Read but Can't
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Hiroshi Tamura
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1Q84: Book 2
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Haruki Murakami
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Happy for No Reason
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Marci Shimoff
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Obama's Speeches
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Asahi Publishing
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Maku Dake Diet
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Chizuru Yamamoto
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The Laws of Courage
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Ryuho Okawa
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Japanese that Japanese People Don't Know
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Nagiko Umino
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Confession
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Kanae Minato
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The Power of Worry
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Kan Sanjun
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