June 29 – July 5, 2026
History lives in bodies, in buildings, in the things we refuse to forget. Five novels where the past is never past — it’s the air the characters breathe.
by Ken Liu
An armada arrives to shatter hard-won peace, forcing an empire to reckon with the weight of its own history. Liu's silkpunk sequel breathes with the ghost of every invasion that shaped the world it imagines.
Six stories where a real earthquake becomes a mirror for invisible fractures — Murakami maps the emotional aftershocks that reach people who weren't even in Kobe, proving that trauma travels further than geography.
A 1973 murder in Osaka ripples across two decades, warping the lives of everyone it touches — Higashino's most ambitious novel proves that some crimes never truly end, they just find new victims.
A girl who once befriended Royal Beasts tries to outrun her past — but a mysterious plague forces her to confront the very powers she's spent a decade hiding. Uehashi shows how history doesn't release us; it finds us in the places we thought were safe.
by Lee Geum-yi
A young Korean woman arrives in early 1900s Hawaii as a picture bride, only to discover the matchmaker's promises were lies — yet Lee finds the quietly revolutionary power in her refusal to be broken by deception.