Author guide
Haruki Murakami
Born in Kyoto in 1949, Haruki Murakami became one of Japan's best-known contemporary writers. His novels, stories, essays, and translations often combine ordinary detail with dreamlike, surreal, and magical-realist touches.
Read in order
Books by series
novel series · complete
The Rat
Murakami's early four-book sequence following the narrator and the Rat.
subseries · complete
Norwegian Wood
Collects the original two-volume Japanese edition and split translations of Norwegian Wood.
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Norwegian WoodAmazon ↗Book 2 · novel · 1987
subseries · complete
Kafka on the Shore
Collects the original two-volume Japanese edition and split translations of Kafka on the Shore.
- 1
Kafka on the ShoreAmazon ↗novel · 2001
novel series · complete
1Q84
- 1
1Q84Amazon ↗Book 3 · novel · 2010
subseries · complete
Killing Commendatore
Collects the original two-volume Japanese edition and split translations of Killing Commendatore.
- 1
Killing CommendatoreAmazon ↗Book 1 · novel · 2017
collection series · unknown
Haruki Murakami Short Stories
collection series · complete
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories
Graphic-novel adaptations of Murakami's short stories.
collection series · unknown
The Penguin Books of Short Stories
- 1 The Penguin Book of Japanese Short StoriesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2018
collection series · unknown
Read Real Japanese
- 1 Read Real JapaneseAmazon ↗
anthology · 1994
collection series · unknown
MONKEY New Writing from Japan
- 1 MONKEY New Writing From Japan Volume 2Amazon ↗
Book 2 · anthology · 2021
Outside the series
Standalone and other books
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The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleAmazon ↗novel · 1994
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldAmazon ↗novel · 1985
- What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2006
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After DarkAmazon ↗novel · 2004
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PilgrimageAmazon ↗novel · 2013
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Sputnik SweetheartAmazon ↗novel · 1999
- Men Without WomenAmazon ↗
collection · 2014
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South of the Border, West of the SunAmazon ↗novel · 1992
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The City and Its Uncertain WallsAmazon ↗novel · 2023
- The Strange LibraryAmazon ↗
novella · 2001
- The Elephant VanishesAmazon ↗
collection · 1993
- After the QuakeAmazon ↗
collection · 2000
- Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanAmazon ↗
collection · 2006
- First Person SingularAmazon ↗
collection · 2020
- Novelist as a VocationAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2015
- Rashomon and Seventeen Other StoriesAmazon ↗
collection · 1915
- Absolutely on MusicAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2011
- DesireAmazon ↗
collection · 1984
- Murakami TAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2020
- The MinerAmazon ↗
novel · 1908
- The Last TycoonAmazon ↗
novel · 1941
- Abandoning a CatAmazon ↗
essay · 2019
- Birthday StoriesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2004
- Monkey Brain SushiAmazon ↗
anthology · 1993
- Vintage MurakamiAmazon ↗
collection · 2004
- The Big New Yorker Book of CatsAmazon ↗
anthology · 2013
- Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao KawaiAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1998
- Alone in the Kitchen with an EggplantAmazon ↗
anthology · 2007