On April 10th, the Meiji Kinenkan held a presentation of the “2024 Bookstore Award, the best book chosen by bookstore staff across the country.” It has been announced that Mina Miyajima’s “Naruse will take over the world” (Shinchosha) won this year’s “Bookstore Award.”
This work is the first in history to win the triple crown (Grand Prize, Reader’s Award, and Tomochika Prize) at the 20th R-18 Literary Award by and for Women, a new talent award sponsored by Shinchosha. The author’s debut work, including “. When Akari Naruse, a junior high school student living in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, heard that the local department store Seibu Otsu store would be closing during summer vacation amid the coronavirus pandemic, she declared, “I’m going to dedicate this summer to Seibu,” and began going there every day. –The way you pursue your own path has garnered you enthusiastic support, and despite your debut work, you have won numerous book awards, including the “Joji Tsubota Literary Award,” “Shizuoka Shoten Award,” and “Kinobes! 2024.” With the recent award of the 2024 Bookstore Award, we have achieved 14 awards. To date, it has become a huge hit, selling over 400,000 copies in its 14th edition.
All rankings for the “2024 Bookstore Award” are as follows.
1st place “Naruse is going to take over the world” / Mina Miyajima (Shinchosha)
2nd Place “Nene of the Watermill” / Kikuko Tsumura (Mainichi Shimbun Publishing)
3rd place “Everything about existence” / Takeshi Shioda (Asahi Shimbun Publishing)
4th place “Spinoza’s Examination Room” / Sosuke Natsukawa (Suisinsha)
5th place “Lehende Country Story” / Rei Tazaki (Kodansha)
6th place “Yellow House” / Mieko Kawakami (Chuokoron-Shinsha)
7th place “Recovery Kabahiko” / Michiko Aoyama (Kobunsha)
8th place “Knitting the Stars” / Yu Nagira (Kodansha)
9th place “After School Mystery Club 1 Goldfish Swimming Pool Incident” / Mikito Chinen (Lights Publishing)
10th place “About the gold you were supposed to have” / Tetsu Ogawa (Shinchosha)
▼Book information
Mina Miyajima
“Naruse is going to take over the world.”
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Kikuko Tsumura
“Nene of the watermill”
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Shioda samurai
“All of existence”
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Sosuke Natsukawa
“Spinoza’s consulting room”
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Rei Tazaki
“The Tale of Lehende”
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Mieko Kawakami
“Yellow House”
5660604:L
Michiko Aoyama
“Recovery Kabahiko”
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Yuu Nagira
“Knitting stars”
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Mikito Chinen
“After School Mystery Club 1 Goldfish Swimming Pool Incident”
5762047:L
Tetsu Ogawa
“About the gold you were supposed to have.”
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