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Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949) · 1949

Haruki Murakami Books in Order

68 books · 1 series · 1979-2023

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.

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3 books, 2009-2010
# Cover Title Published Buy
2
1Q84 Book 2 2009 Amazon
3
1Q84 Book 3 2010 Amazon
1Q84 Book 1 2009 Amazon

Entries without a number are not numbered in the source data - they are placed by publication date, which is usually but not always the intended reading order.

Standalone books

Books outside a series, oldest first.
# Cover Title Published Buy
1
Hear the Wind Sing 1979 Amazon
2
A 'Poor Aunt' Story 1980 Amazon
3
Pinball, 1973 1980 Amazon
4
A Perfect Day for Kangaroos 1981 Amazon
5
Dabchick 1981 Amazon
6
The Year of Spaghetti 1981 Amazon
7
A Wild Sheep Chase 1982 Amazon
8
Firefly 1983 Amazon
9
The Rise and Fall of Sharpie Cakes 1983 Amazon
10
Hunting Knife 1984 Amazon
11
Nausea 1979 1984 Amazon
12
The Dancing Dwarf 1984 Amazon
13
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World 1985 Amazon
14
The Second Bakery Attack 1986 Amazon
15
Norwegian Wood 1987 Amazon
16
Dance Dance Dance 1988 Amazon
17
A Folklore for My Generation: A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism 1989 Amazon
18
The Mirror 1990 Amazon
19
Tony Takitani 1990 Amazon
20
Man-Eating Cats 1991 Amazon
21
The Ice Man 1991 Amazon
22
The Silence 1991 Amazon
23
South of the Border, West of the Sun 1992 Amazon
24
The Elephant Vanishes 1993 Amazon
25
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 1994 Amazon
26
The Seventh Man 1996 Amazon
27
Sputnik Sweetheart 1999 Amazon
28
After the Quake 2000 Amazon
29
Underground 2000 Amazon
30
Birthday Girl 2002 Amazon
31
Birthday Stories 2002 Amazon
32
Kafka on the Shore 2002 Amazon
33
After Dark 2004 Amazon
34
Hanalei Bay 2005 Amazon
35
The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day 2005 Amazon
36
The Strange Library 2005 Amazon
37
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 2006 Amazon
38
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 2007 Amazon
39
Uten Enten 2008 Amazon
40
1Q84 2009 Amazon
41
Schlaf 2010 Amazon
42
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage 2013 Amazon
43
Drive My Car 2013 Amazon
44
Men Without Women 2014 Amazon
45 Wind/Pinball 2015 Amazon
46
Killing Commendatore 2017 Amazon
47
Abandoning a Cat 2019 Amazon
48
First Person Singular 2020 Amazon
49
The City and Its Uncertain Walls 2023 Amazon
50
A Shinagawa Monkey Amazon
51
A Window Amazon
52
Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry Amazon
53
Barn Burning Amazon
54
Chance Traveller Amazon
55
Crabs Amazon
56
Family Affair Amazon
57
Murakami T Amazon
58
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning Amazon
59
Samsa in love Amazon
60
Thailand Amazon
61
The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds Amazon
62
The Little Green Monster Amazon
63
The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women Amazon
64
TV People Amazon
65
Where I'm Likely to Find It Amazon

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