Shoutaro is a man of few words. He manages a used books store called Mononobe Koshoten and has an efficient young boy named Shiro to... more>> help out with the work while he reads the day away. But behind this normal and mundane facade Shoutaro has another job: the collection of some rather unpleasant old books… <<less

Yori Iwatani is close to her 40s and is giving up on love and marriage. She has decided to live a quiet solitary life in... more>> her hometown. But when a handsome former classmate appears, things change for her. <<less

That is the world where Ayakashi lives. ... more>>

The sun sound doesnt shine, and there was one person Naori living in a world where there are many suspicious creatures who eat humans.

As a child Naori founds herself lost in the World of the ayakashi.She runs a bookstore with her ayakashi adoptive father, Shinonome, and meets a youth named Suimei who is bleeding and faints..

It’s fun, scary, and… a sad, ghostly story. <<less

Sana, the daughter of a tool shop in a corner of the castle town, went out to the forest to pick medicinal herbs as usual... more>> in order to make recovery potions for the store's products. There, Sana picks up her mysterious book. Because she read the strategy book, the daughter of the tool shop, who shouldn't have anything to do with the story, is greatly involved in the story of the game...?! Another world romantic comedy adventure fantasy! <<less

The story opens as middle school student Takao Kasuga receives an F on a math test. But he doesn't even seem to notice because he's too engrossed in surreptitiously reading Beaudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. And the day goes downhill from there. In a moment of weakness, he finds and takes home the gym clothes belonging to sweet, pretty Nanako Saeki on whom he has a major crush. Unfortunately for Takao, there's a witness to the theft: Nakamura, who has a huge chip on her shoulder and a sadistic streak.... more>>

As the saga unfolds, we see Takao struggling to decide whether to confess or cover up his misdeeds at the same time that he tries to win over the girl of his dreams, and avoid the blackmail attempts of Nakamura, his new ”BFF.” <<less

After his bibliophile father passed away, the boy Lucas sees a beautifully decorated book in a shop window in Paris. The book decorator there, Stefan... more>> Bosch, takes him to his publishing house, and he wanders into the atelier of Stefan Louis. Lucas is enchanted by the bookbinding world of the two Stefans, and he takes up training at their atelier. To find the place where he belongs—- <<less

One day, I - a high schooler - found a paperback in the hospital. The "Infirmity Novel" was its title. It was a diary that Sakura Yamauchi, a classmate of mine, was writing in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from "just a classmate" to a "secret-knowing classmate". It felt like I was being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. ... more>>

However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality... <<less

This manga anthology includes three stories, recommended and awarded by Hakusensha! The title work and the first story, “Hana Yanagi”, is a heart wrenching love... more>> story that takes place in the red light district. The 2nd story, “A Bird of Your Color”, follows Tiana, a young woman with blue hair. Lastly “Dame Maid”, a story of a hopelessly lacking maid and a cute and little, young master. <<less

The "mysterious school comedy" centers on the unusual members of a high-school literary club. Touko Amano, a high-school senior who calls herself the "literary girl"... more>> as the club president, is actually a supernatural creature (youkai) that devours stories — she tears pages from books to munch on them. Her club subordinate is Konoha Inoue, a second-year high-school boy who writes stories every day for Amano to eat. He once wrote an award-winning novel, but he wrote it under the penname Miu Inoue so readers thought the author was a mysterious 14-year-old bishoujo novelist. The stress from the novel's fame and its movie and television drama plans turned Inoue into an introverted recluse. <<less

The story is set in the Taisho Era at the beginning of the 20th century — except the era did not end in 15 years (as it did in real life) but lasted 25 years. ... more>>

To protect her family who fell from their former glory, a girl decides to marry a man whose name she does not even know. However, before she does, her little brother commits suicide in a mysterious fire, with an old book in hand.

The Imperial Library Information Assets Management Bureau — also known as "Fukurō" — then appears before the confused girl.

According to the Fukurō, there exists books called Maremono, which exert a great influence on those who read it. Moreover, the girl gained the ability to see an "Aura" due to the incident with her brother. Despite her confusion, the girl chooses to leave the "birdcage" of her former life. [ANN] <<less

Book-loving student Mitake Alice is a normal-looking girl when she has her glasses on, but when she takes off her glasses... she becomes the most... more>> beautiful woman in the world. Alice without her glasses is so beautiful, she has even charmed all of the fictional male characters in the fairy tales that she loves to read. Now, the fairy tale female characters like Snow White and Cinderella are out on a hunt to annihilate Alice to gain back each of their corresponding princes. Will Alice survive the onslaught of princess assassins? [DrCoke] <<less

During the 31st year of Seika, the battle between the Library Force and the Media Improvement Committee reached a new level of violence. Each group has armed itself for either the freedom of expression or the "protection" of society from the bad influences of media.... more>>

Kasahara Iku joins the Library Force with the intent of finding her "Prince" who helped her during a censorship exercise by the Media Improvement Committee and with her strong will of protecting books. <<less

Akari, who loves books, moves to Tokyo to go work at the head office of a bookstore. There she meets the assistant manager Terayama Morizou,... more>> who loves books more than people. Up 'til now Akari hasn't worked at such a large store yet so she feels a lot of pressure, but at the same time she realizes she really loves her job. This manga depicts the struggles she experiences at work as well as in her personal life. <<less

Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity that arises between the protagonists and yourself. This collected volume was named after the longest of the four stories that it contains: a drama about an adolescent girl who falls in love with Roger Martin du Gard’s saga, Les Thibault. The remaining stories capture various fragments of everyday life with tenderness and humor. Through the kaleidoscope of its feminine views, The Yellow Book touches the readers heart by attending to what, in sum, makes up life—the little things of our every... more>> day.

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 2003. <<less

Fukaya Shinichiro's whimsical grandfather has decided, quite out of the blue, to hand over one of his many holdings, a bookstore known as the "Fukayadou", to his high school-age grandson!... more>>

Shinichiro is understandably reluctant, but when he sets foot in the store only to be immediately drawn into a world full of fantastical books that thrive on human emotions, and meets the handsome blond man with a mysterious smile who works as its manager, he realizes his life will never be normal again. <<less

Whenever Kurumi is sad and wishes she was more brave, she looks at her fairy tale book. One day, a "Coppelia" called Chestnut comes out... more>> of her book, saying she came from the fairy world through a portal created by Kurumi's strong desire. But now that Kurumi has a Coppelia, she's expected to fight others in battles where the loser ends up undressed. <<less

Keitarou Itsuki is a junior high school student unhappy about the menacing look of his eyes. Keitarou tries to confess to the girl he likes,... more>> Aoi Tokujira, but she rejects him flat out. Thinking that his eyes were the reason why she rejected him, he confides in his older sister about it at her salon, who helps by giving him a complete makeover...as a pretty girl! Forced to head home like this, he runs into Aoi in town, but she doesn't recognize him and thinks he's a somewhat manly girl. Before he can leave, Aoi asks him to help her overcome a problem she's had for many years: an intense fear of men. <<less

Kanako is a young woman who is running an old book store. One day, a customer comes in who shares her taste in books. He's... more>> a teenager named Akio, and he and Kanako quickly find that their taste in books is only the first of many ways that they fit together well. Kanako immediately realizes she wants him, and soon blurts out awkward things, like proposals of marriage and cohabitation. Despite their different ages and their awkwardness, it seems like their relationship has the potential to grow into something beautiful. <<less

Atsu-chan (Shinoda) usually sleeps in class. One day, she goes to the library to borrow books for her history report. She sees a sofa in... more>> the library and wants to sleep there. Will it be her chance to get a good place for her sleep? Or will it cause some changes to her sleeping habit? <<less

A cute love story between a track runner and an older librarian.... more>>

Extra: My Girlfriend Is a Step Ahead of Me <<less

• Shining Mars ... more>>

Aya loves her childhood friend Yuna but Yuna is good at everything and Aya worries that she's not good enough for her. The metaphor of Earth and Mars is used to describe their relationship/situation.

• Omoi no Kisetsu

What happens when two nuns-in-training are discovered to be having a relationship with each other?

• Rooftop

A girl confesses her love to her crush many, many times, but her crush thinks that she's just saying it out of pity.

• Bound by a Red String

A romance blooms between two roomates in an all-girls' boarding school.

• The Glade in the Forest Behind the School

Two girls share a secret place, and become close because of it.

• I'm Here

Agirl returns to a place she lived in as a child and sees a childhood friend again.

• She, I, and the Red Book

• You're Lovelier than a Rose

Aparody about an all-girls school with an underground student council that's a bit... unusual. It makes a few funny references, to things like Marimite and Takarazuka.

• Autumn Sleepiness

Two girls are stuck coming into school on a Sunday to do work for the Student Council. But why is one of them so sleepy?

• Beyond This Sky

A girl consoles a new student who has just come to the school.

• Friends

Two particular girls, one of whom just happens to be the board chairman of their school, become friends with each other.

• My Partner

• Princess Academy <<less

I love Takai-kun in one of my favourite books that I'm reading, but Fukai-san disagrees with his character. To settle our differences, I challenged him,... more>> a push-over to act as a dominant Takai-kun, while I, as the meek heroine in a fake date. I seems I get more than a bargained for in that day... <<less

Yamada Hana, a high school girl, woke up and found herself in a strange land after being enveloped by a bright light that came out... more>> from a mysterious book. There, Hana met a young man named Gentoku, and ended up staying with him and his army as "Koumei's disciple"… <<less

Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou is a mystery series in which Shinokawa Shioriko, a young owner of a bookstore in Kamakura, unravels the mysteries of the ancient books that are taken there.... more>>

The story begins with a young man named Daisuke, who practically grew up without reading books due to his phobia, who brings the complete (and autographed) collection of works by Natsume Soseki, (Japanese writer of the Meiji era) that he inherited from his grandmother, to the mysterious bookstore. Will the shy and introverted Shioriko solve the mystery of the books? <<less

Yomiko Readman's love for literature goes far beyond any run-of-the-mill bookworm's! In fact, she has a supernatural ability to manipulate paper in the most amazing... more>> ways. From turning a tiny scrap into a lethal throwing dagger to making a single sheet hard enough to block bullets, she's only limited by her imagination. She uses her phenomenal power to seek out legendary books containing secret information that, in the wrong hands, could be dangerous. Backed by a Special Operations Division in England, Yomiko has her hands full battling evildoers, saving the world, and trying to find time to curl up with a good book. <<less