日本ノベル - Biblia Koshodou

Front/Back Cover of Vol. 1

A book I recently got into (but haven't finished yet... I've been getting lazy as of late) is called ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou, which translates to The Case Records of the Biblia Secondhand Bookstore. It's not quite what I was expecting, but it's a rather realistic mystery story with 3 volumes (so far).

I'll be honest, the feature that drew me into buying the book was the cover girl, 栞子, Shioriko, whose literary-girl introverted demeanor I find attractive. At least within the anime world lol. If you can read Japanese, or are stubborn enough to juggle a novel and 2 dictionaries at once, then I'd suggest this to just about anybody with a taste for mystery or crime investigation. It's a work-related story unlike those rather outlandish (cough:kamisamanomemochou:cough) novels out now.