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Michiko Aoyama is a Japanese novelist born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture. After working as a newspaper journalist in Sydney, she became a magazine editor before turning to fiction. Her debut, Thursday Cocoa, won the first Miyazaki Book Award. Her novels frequently connect ordinary lives through recurring places, objects, and characters, and include What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, Red and Blue and an Esquisse, The Moonlit Forest, Recovery Kabahiko, and The Mermaid Ran Away.
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木曜日にはココアを
Her debut and the first volume of the Marble Cafe series.
お探し物は図書室まで
A highly accessible standalone novel and her best-known internationally translated work.
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Books by series
novel-series · unknown
木曜日にはココアをシリーズ
A linked series centered on the Marble Cafe and the people whose lives intersect through it.
Outside the series
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Novels (9)
- 猫のお告げは樹の下でAmazon ↗
novel · 2018
- 鎌倉うずまき案内所Amazon ↗
novel · 2019
- ただいま神様当番Amazon ↗
novel · 2020
- お探し物は図書室までAmazon ↗
novel · 2020
- 赤と青とエスキースAmazon ↗
novel · 2021
- 月の立つ林でAmazon ↗
novel · 2022
- いつもの木曜日Amazon ↗
illustrated-novella · 2022
- 人魚が逃げたAmazon ↗
novel · 2024
- 本の話はどこまでも 青山美智子さんが答える33の質問Amazon ↗
nonfiction-interview · 2025