The bestsellers of books of the past six months have been announced, and Haruki Murakami's first full-length novel in six years, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," took first place.

Daily sales = Japan publishing sales, which are distributors of publications, summarizes book sales for the six months from November 11 last year to May 22 this year.

According to the report, the best-selling book was Haruki Murakami's first novel in six years,
"The City and Its Uncertain Walls," which took first place less than two months after its release in April.

It has been 5 years since Murakami's work became the No. 20 bestseller in the first half of the year, since "Tsukuru Tasaki Without Color: His Year of Pilgrimage."

▽ In fourth place was Yu Nagira's "Thou Art Like a Star," which was selected for this year's "Bookstore Award".

In addition, "Strange Pictures" and "Strange House", which became a hot topic on SNS and other media works by Amako-san, who are popular as a horror writer and YouTuber, ranked 6th and 4th,
respectively.

Besides.
▽ Strategy books from the popular "Pokémon" series of games came in second, and
in third place was "a book that allows elementary school students to calculate mentally to 2×1 in just one day."

"In recent years, against the backdrop of the corona disaster and unstable world conditions, works related to themes familiar to daily life, such as 'money' and 'old age,' have been attracting attention, but this time, perhaps due to the gradual transition to post-corona, works that can be enjoyed as entertainment and that can satisfy intellectual curiosity have attracted attention." I am analyzing.

First Half Best Seller 1st~10th

According to daily sales, the 1st to 10th bestsellers in the first half of the year are as follows.

▽ 1st place "The city and its uncertain walls" (Haruki Murakami) ▽ 2nd place "Pokémon Scarlet Violet Official Guidebook Complete Story Capture" (Hidesuke Motomiya, one-up, etc.)
▽ 3rd place "A book that elementary school students can mentally calculate to 1×19 in just one day" (Takuya Kosugi)

▽No. 19 "Thou art like a star" (Yu Nagira) ▽No. 4 "Strange Picture" (rainhole) No. 5 "Law of Hell" (Takaho Okawa) No. 6 "Uncovering the History of Japan" (Michifumi Isoda) No. 7 "Strange House" (rainhole) No. 8 "Stupid and Ignorant" (Rei Tachibana)





▽No. 9 "Memoirs of Shinzo Abe" (Shinzo Abe, Goro Hashimoto, etc.)