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Matcha on Monday

byMichiko Aoyama, E. Madison Shimoda (Translator)
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By the million-copy bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY, a Times bestseller and Time magazine Top 100 title


From the three-times nominated author for the Japan Booksellers award: Volume Two of the Marble Cafe series, in which customers, staff, artists and manager connect over 12 powerful episodes to create vivid experiences of unexpected happy encounters and anonymous kindness.

© Michiko Aoyama 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

About Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. She is the author of the multi-million-copy bestselling What You Are Looking For is in the Library, translated by Alison Watts, which was a Time Book of the Year, a Times bestseller and a New York Times Book of the Month. Matcha on Monday is a companion read to the author’s debut, Hot Chocolate on Thursday. Both are set in and around the fictitious Marble Cafe, a tiny community café in Tokyo.
Another book available in English by Aoyama and translated by Takami Nieda is the international bestseller The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park.
Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
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