In 7th-century Gaochang, a small but vital nation at the crossroads of the Silk Road, First Prince Qu Zhisheng believes the kingdoms of the Western Regions must unite and support each other to survive, rather than submit to either the powerful Tang dynasty or the mighty Western Turks. But his father the king chooses an alliance with the Western Turks, and the fate of the small kingdom hangs by a thread. A passionate historical adventure following a proud prince and his brothers.

The fate of this small nation, like a tiny boat adrift in a sea of sand, rests upon the shoulders of its princes.

Makoto Inaba, an oil painting student on leave from an art university in Kyoto, joins a team tasked with reproducing and restoring an ancient set of fusuma paintings created by Yukika Hirano, a female painter from the Edo period. Of the original twelve panels depicting birds and flowers, only nine survive. Together with two graduate students specializing in art restoration, Makoto works to reconstruct the missing three panels through research and imagination. This moving novel, winner of the 16th Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, delicately captures both the anguish and joy of creative work.

To replicate not just the image, but the emotion the original evokes — that was the extraordinarily demanding art of restorative reproduction.

Set amid a series of wolf attacks in Oshu, this historical novel follows a young man appointed wolf-hunting magistrate as he investigates his father's death and corruption within the domain. His pursuit of the wolf pack's leader leads him into the lives of the region and the darkness of power.

A young man charged with hunting wolves confronts his father's death and the domain's hidden wrongdoing.

In Edo during the sixth year of Kansei, the story is told through the maid Okoma as she witnesses events surrounding the mysterious artist Sharaku and Tsutaya Juzaburo. A historical novel that follows Sharaku’s identity and the era’s excitement, winning the Haruki Kadokawa Novel Prize.

Edo is stirred by actor portraits unlike any ever seen before.

Kakeru: Shonen Kiba Yugekitai is a historical adventure set in the Sengoku-era Chugoku region, following the boy Koroku and Yamanaka Yukimori, who seeks to restore the Amago clan.

After bandits destroy his village and leave him alone, Koroku's skill with horses is discovered and he begins to distinguish himself as a cavalryman in Kikkawa Motoharu's army.

Published as Shichigusa Nyobo after winning the award under the title Sukkiri Shitai, this historical novel is set during Japan's transition from the late Edo period to Meiji.

To find the husband who joined the Shogitai, the impoverished ronin Sotaro Kashiwagi sets out for Aizu.

Black Sheep Keeper is a science-fiction novel set in a near-future Sapporo. Tōichi Kiriya, a former police officer with a special ability, lives in isolation under the trauma of having shot his mentally ill sister; meeting an innocent girl gives him a small reason to live again. It won the eleventh Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award.

Kiriya, a former police officer with a special ability, finds a small light for living through an innocent girl he meets in his isolation.

Published as Warabe no Kami, this historical fantasy set in the Heian period follows people seeking a world free from discrimination.

After losing his father and homeland, Ougimaru vows revenge against the people of the capital and encounters those called warabe.

Sugata Naki Hijack was a finalist for the tenth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Keiichi Azuma's Shiroku no Gama was a finalist for the tenth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Ubusuna was a finalist for the tenth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Ran'yo o Yuke: Oda no Adabana, Takigawa Kazumasu is a historical novel following the turbulent life of Takigawa Kazumasu, a warrior who served Oda Nobunaga.

Takigawa Kazumasu, a local lord of Koka ninja origin, wanders through many provinces before meeting Oda Nobunaga and rising as a trusted retainer.

Aki Takashiro's Sukuna-mura Kitan was a finalist for the ninth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Isao Sasaki's Ransei o Yuke, later published as Ransei o Yuke: Oda no Adabana, Takigawa Kazumasu.

Jinno Minazuki's Satsuma Mumei Mongatari was a finalist for the ninth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Set in Yokohama amid the rapid changes of the early Meiji period, Yokohama Tuntenraira is a mystery and coming-of-age story about a young woman's first love.

In Yokohama in 1882, Suzu, the fourth daughter of a seafood wholesaler, has a letter entrusted to her by a friend stolen in Chinatown.

Kaitaku Koseki was a finalist for the eighth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Yūtarō's Lonely Planet was a finalist for the eighth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Confessions of Cinderella is a historical mystery about a beautiful woman calling herself Cinderella and a series of suspicious deaths among the nobility.

The widow Tina travels to the great city of Lutetia with her two daughters, drawing closer to the mystery of Cinderella and the unexplained deaths troubling high society.

Published as Meiji Sword Wolf Chronicle: The Saigo Assassination Order, this historical adventure novel is set in the early Meiji era.

As the Satsuma Rebellion erupts, Goro Fujita and Tsuneaki Murata are ordered to join a mission to rescue Saigo Takamori.

Tsuyoshi Karima's Ashidamari no Ie was a finalist for the seventh Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Mineko Honjō's 1992-nen no Good Fellows was a finalist for the seventh Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Published as The Daughter of the Samurai I Loved, this historical novel follows a woman ninja caught between duty and love in Edo-period Japan.

Yukino, a Koga ninja in service to the Owari Tokugawa house, infiltrates a Nagasaki pleasure quarter as a courtesan.

Kage wa Hikari: Aisu Ikosai Mingoku Toho Denjuki was a finalist for the sixth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Yaku Shimizu's Saraba, Waga Itoshi no Camellia was a finalist for the sixth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Published as Late Summer Light, this hard-boiled crime novel follows Satoru Nitta, a Japanese man working for an underworld fixer in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong's underworld, Satoru Nitta works for the fixer Chen Xiaosheng, taking on jobs that include recovering stolen goods.

Seikai Amahara's TYRANT was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Wakainumaru Assassination Chronicle: A Kamakura Chronicle Side Story was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Taishi Asano's Sabaku no Shita ni Doru wa Nemuru was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Yōkoku no Kenshi is a historical fantasy set in the country of Yasura, where humans and yōma are in conflict. Seventeen-year-old swordswoman Natsuno Kurokawa, searching for her kidnapped younger brother, takes a sealed yōma eye into her own left eye and meets the master swordsman Kyōichirō Sagasawa and the one-eyed boy Sōta. It was published after winning the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award as Gara no Kaze.

Searching for her brother, swordswoman Natsuno Kurokawa takes a yōma eye sealed in a shrine into her left eye and is drawn into a conflict involving yōma.

Tanabata Rain was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Shinichi Natsukawa's Inter Play was a finalist for the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Misaki Chino's Kara no Kaze, later published as Yokoku no Kenshi.

GHOST was a finalist for the fifth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Shinkoiwa Paradise is a coming-of-age novel about Masashi Nagase, who begins living in a Shinkoiwa guesthouse after losing his job and savings. Matai Kenta won the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award with the manuscript Goodbye Money!, which was published under this new title.

After being saved from a suicide attempt by Izumi, Masashi begins a new life at Edamame House, a guesthouse in Shinkoiwa.

Suzaku Haruka's Kyoken, Chui was a finalist for the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Kenta Matai's Goodbye Money!, later published as Shin-Koiwa Paradise.

Soft-Boiled was a finalist for the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Hiroyuki Sasaki's Shōjo Ningyō ALICE 13 was a finalist for the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Ketsuro: Nanryō Nanatsuya Hiroku is a historical action novel set in the Sengoku period, when Takeda Harunobu seeks Ryūjingatake Castle as a route into Shinano. It follows the conflict between the mountain people known as Nanryō Nanatsuya and Takeda's assassination group, Kamakiri. It won the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award for Taku Hasegawa.

Amid Takeda's schemes for Ryūjingatake Castle, the mountain people of Nanatsuya enter a deadly struggle with the assassination group Kamakiri.

Blue Blood was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Chikahiro Hiroiwa's Bengoshitachi no Hakaba was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Nagiko Marumo's Heisei no Kazoku was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Taku Hasegawa's Nanryo Nanatsuya Hiroku: Nanatsu no Futatsu, later published as Ketsuro.

Haruka na Takeda Kibatai was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Hirameki no Kaze: Dawn is a coming-of-age racing novel in which street racer Hiroshi Mizumoto discovers Formula Three and pursues glory as a driver.

Once a street racer, Hiroshi sees a Formula Three car at Suzuka Circuit and steps into the world of racing.

Yoshimoto Bōsatsu is a historical novel set in the Imagawa clan on the eve of the Battle of Okehazama. Retainer Taga Sōjūrō investigates a massacre within the clan and the conspiracy behind it. It was published under a new title after winning the Special Prize at the first Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award as Sunpu ni Fuku Kaze.

A massacre within the Imagawa clan draws Taga Sōjūrō into a conspiracy that grips Sengoku-era Sunpu.

Mugen-kyo was a finalist for the first Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Endymion Endymion was a finalist for the first Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The grand prize went to Masatoshi Tsuji's Hirameki no Kaze, and the special prize to Eiji Suzuki's Sunpu ni Fuku Kaze.

Dotte Koto Arahen! was a finalist for the first Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.