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24 alternatives to Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

A runaway bestseller in Japan about a girl who finds herself

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Bending Adversity▲69
A look at Japan's recent developments in Asia and the World
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
A Geek in Japan▲87
Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
The Girl in the Spider's Web▲60
From the author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Little Rice▲61
Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up▲71
The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
The Japanese Lover▲66
Two survivors of separation and loss
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
In Praise of Shadows▲68
A delightful essay on the ethos of Japanese aesthetics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
The Last Samurai▲56
The story of a young genius and his unique education
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
American Girls▲67
Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
American Girls▲60
Social media and the secret lives of teenagers
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
11
Kuma-Kuma Chan, the Little Bear ▲64
lovingly rendered, meditative book on friendship
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Kooba▲141
An interactive graph for finding new books
2017 · its alternatives →
13
Emojis▲71
The secret behind the smile
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
"The Bird Market" By Anton Chekhov▲62
TFW You Learn More About Life From A Bird, Than From School
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
15
1Q84▲65
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank▲59
First hand account of a 13 year old girl during WW II
2016 · amazon.in · its alternatives →
17
The Gutsy Girl▲71
Book that inspires girls to seek a life of exhilaration
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel▲60
Clever and twisted fairy tale
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel▲55
Memory and Imagination of Coming of Age in France and Russia
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
City on Fire: A novel ▲79
Head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Emoji Book▲125
A collection of artist interpretations of Emoji
2016 · emojibook.club · its alternatives →
22
Incognito▲70
The secret lives of the brain
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
23
illusions▲57
A Japanese-first writing editor for focused fiction
Sep 2026 · illusions.app · its alternatives →
24
Bird by Bird▲82
Some instructions on writing and life
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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