Books like The Cat Who Saved Books
Grieving the grandfather who raised him, reclusive high-schooler Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the family's secondhand bookshop when a talking tabby cat appears and asks for his help rescuing books from the people who imprison them.
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Satoru and Nana, the streetwise stray he took in, set off in a silver van across Japan to visit the old friends who might give Nana a home, for reasons Satoru keeps to himself.
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Kokoro has stopped going to school after being bullied, until the mirror in her bedroom begins to shine and pulls her into a castle where six other teenagers have a year to find a hidden key that grants one wish.
Inkheart
Meggie's father Mo, a bookbinder, can read characters out of books and into the world, and years ago he read a villain named Capricorn out of a novel called Inkheart, who now wants him back.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
The Lantern of Lost Memories
In an old-fashioned photo studio between life and death, Mr Hirasaka helps the newly departed look back over their lives through a lantern of memories and step back into one moment to photograph it again.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Nils Holgersson, a lazy, cruel farm boy, is shrunk to the size of a thumb by an elf and carried across Sweden on the back of a goose flying north with a flock of wild geese.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
The Guest Cat
A couple in their thirties, both writers, rent a cottage in the grounds of an old Tokyo house, and a neighbour's cat named Chibi begins visiting, and then staying.
Kiki's Delivery Service
By tradition a young witch leaves home at thirteen to live in a new town for a year, so Kiki flies off on her mother's broom with her black cat, Jiji, and lands in the seaside town of Koriko.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
In a cramped basement café in Tokyo, one particular seat lets a customer travel back in time, as long as they keep to the rules and return before their coffee goes cold; four visitors take the chance to see someone again.
The Neverending Story
A bullied German schoolboy steals a book and reads himself into the empty country of Fantastica, where the Childlike Empress is dying because no one is still imagining her.