◆村上春树最喜欢的年轻作家
村上春树称赞她的作品“令人惊叹”，称她为“天才”
自己最喜欢的年轻作家，并在著名文学论坛Literary hub上发表文章赞扬川上未映子。
◆新海诚每次去书店都要看她的书。
我被川上书中深入探讨男孩和女孩心理的世界所吸引，每次去书店都要看她的书。——新海诚
◆上野千鹤子被她深深触动，在《厌女》中一再推荐，埃莱娜·费兰特也爱她！
川上未映子的技艺高超，深深触动了我。——上野千鹤子
《那不勒斯四部曲》作者埃莱娜·费兰特埃将她列入了自己最喜欢的40位女作家书单。
◆同两位诺奖得主共同入选布克国际文学奖
2022 年，川上的《天堂》同 2018 年诺贝尔文学奖获得者奥尔加·托卡尔丘克新作《雅各布之书》和 2023 年诺贝尔文学奖获得者约恩·福瑟的《新的名字：七部曲 VI—VII》共同入选布克国际文学奖短名单。
◆灵感来源于尼采《查拉图斯特拉如是说》，以哲学的视角探讨校园暴力。自我即天堂，他人即地狱。
关注温顺者在一个偏袒强者的社会中的命运
细致描写霸凌中受害者、加害者、旁观者的不同心理。
◆超人气插画师咸鱼中下游绘制封面。
如果有地狱，它就在这里；
如果有天堂，它也在这里。
这里就是一切。
在学校里，我因为斜视被他们以各种理由惩罚。他们心安理得地踢我的膝盖和大腿，踩我的肚子，强迫我喝池塘和厕所里的水，一边说“你的眼睛太恶心了，我要惩罚你！”“只要你在，我就不爽！”一边命令我把粉笔塞进鼻孔， 在黑板上画有趣的画。每当我做这些毫无意义的事情时总能看到他们排成一排的笑脸。“跟往常一样，没什么大不了。”我在脑海中安慰着自己，等待时间的流逝。
我知道，即使我把这件事告诉爸妈，他们也无法参与到我的世界中。即使我告诉他们，事态也绝对不会发生好转。
可即使我什么也没做，情况还是变得更糟糕了，他们用打开的订书机在我手掌上啪啪地压下订书针，手掌上留下的圆圆的痕迹一跳一跳地疼。他们还把我的头封进足球皮里，让我当“足球人”来被他们踢，头上的鲜血滴答滴答地落在地板上。
直到有一天，我收到了一张写着“我们是朋友”的纸条，纸条来自班里的另一位被霸凌者小岛。于是，和小岛之间的通信成为了我唯一真正意义上的快乐，在被不安困扰得睡不着的夜晚，在担心今后、担心上学又无能为力的时候，我就会躺着看向书柜，盯着装满信的字典函套的书脊。
可让我没想到的是，小岛正把我拖入另一层地狱……

Originaire d’une petite ville de la région du San’in, Kyôko est une femme célibataire d’une grande beauté. Tout l’oppose à sa sœur cadette Anzu, divorcée, mère d’un garçon, céramiste reconnue. Kyôko, elle, poursuit depuis treize ans une carrière de secrétaire de direction dans une société de cosmétiques à Tokyo. Elle profite ainsi, avec légèreté, du magnétisme qu’elle exerce sur les hommes et s’épanouit au gré de ses voyages d’affaires. Mais le départ soudain de son patron et l’arrivée du nouveau, plus jeune, plus charmant, vont ébranler en elle bien des certitudes.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.

"Ink and Strawberries" contains the very best of contemporary Quebec women's fiction, cover a full range of women's lives, from a young girl's coming of age, to an old woman's memories, from sexuality to the tenderness of women's friendships.

It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
From the Hardcover edition.

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II

On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards, and await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. He learns about their childhoods and their daydreams, their passions and their fears, their desperate strategies for safety and survival. The stories form a portrait of endurance in a world where no choices are good ones.

One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, Adam and Sala fall in love. As they desperately carve out intimacy, their relationship feels both impossible and vital, their connection keeping them alive. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: Whom can he save, and at what cost?

Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein draws readers into the lives of people living on the edge. Told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice for the many fans of literary World War II fiction such as Kristin Harmel’s The Book of Lost Names and Lauren Fox’s Send for Me.