Haruki Murakami Books in Order

Murakami's debut novella, set during a hot summer in 1970. An unnamed biology student returns to his hometown, drinks beer at J’s Bar with his friend the Rat, and muses on writing and relationships in a series of fragmented, breezy vignettes.

The sequel to *Hear the Wind Sing* finds the narrator living in Tokyo with nameless twins while obsessively searching for a specific pinball machine he once loved. Meanwhile, the Rat struggles with his own drift and isolation back in their hometown.

On a spring morning in Tokyo, a man passes a stranger he instantly believes is his perfect match, yet says nothing. After she disappears into the crowd, his missed opportunity opens into a wistful meditation on chance, memory, and imagined love.

An advertising executive is forced by a mysterious right-wing organization to track down a specific sheep with a star on its back. His search leads him from Tokyo to the snowy mountains of Hokkaido, where he confronts the ghosts of his friend, the Rat.

Stranded in a taxi during a rainstorm, the narrator listens as the driver calmly claims to be a vampire. Their unnerving conversation transforms a mundane ride through traffic into a deadpan encounter with the supernatural.

A compact selection of Murakami's short fiction focused on the theme of desire. These stories explore the hunger for connection, food, and the strange, inexplicable yearnings that drive human behavior.

Two parallel narratives unfold: one in a cyberpunk Tokyo where a "Calcutec" scrambles data in his brain, and another in a walled fantasy town where residents have no shadows. The stories slowly converge to reveal the connection between the two worlds.

This Japanese short-story collection gathers eighteen early pieces by Haruki Murakami, including the title story and “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning.” Its brief, varied works move between slices of everyday urban life and more surreal conceits.

Set in late 1960s Tokyo, this realistic novel follows Toru Watanabe as he navigates a painful love triangle between the fragile, troubled Naoko and the lively, independent Midori. A nostalgic and heartbreaking story of loss and student life.

An unnamed Japanese housewife has gone seventeen days without sleep, though she feels more alert than ill. As her secret wakefulness alters her routine and inner life, the story follows her growing detachment from domestic certainty.

The narrator of *A Wild Sheep Chase* returns to the Dolphin Hotel, only to find it transformed into a modern high-rise. He teams up with a clairvoyant teenage girl and an old friend to solve a murder mystery that spans the physical and spiritual worlds.

This paperback edition presents the fourth annual gathering of fantasy and horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Alongside selected fiction and poetry, it includes genre surveys and reference material looking back at notable work in the field.

Edited by Alfred Birnbaum, this anthology introduces contemporary Japanese fiction in English through short stories, novel excerpts, and a manga selection. Contributors including Haruki Murakami explore urban life, pop culture, surrealism, and social unease.

This fourth annual gathering, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, collects fantasy and horror chosen from the previous year’s publishing. Fiction, poetry, essays, and genre overviews create a wide-angle record of the field’s darker and more imaginative work.

A collection of seventeen short stories that blend the ordinary with the surreal. From a midnight hunger that leads to a bakery robbery to an elephant that disappears from its enclosure, these tales showcase Murakami's mastery of the bizarre.

When Toru Okada's cat goes missing, followed by his wife, his search pulls him into a netherworld beneath Tokyo. He encounters a psychic prostitute, a corrupt politician, and a veteran of the Nomonhan Incident in this sprawling metaphysical detective story.

Hajime, a successful jazz bar owner with a wife and children, is shaken when his childhood sweetheart reappears during a rainy night. Her arrival forces him to question his choices and the potentially destructive power of his past obsessions.

Edited by Beverly Lawn, this compact teaching anthology assembles forty classic and contemporary short stories. Arranged to support the study of fiction, it pairs a broad range of authors with biographical notes and reference material; Amy Tan and Haruki Murakami are among the contributors.

A collection of twenty-five true and fictional outdoor tales for reading after dark. Drawn from literary fiction, adventure writing, and firsthand accounts, the pieces trace animal attacks, natural disasters, brushes with death, and unsettling encounters in the wilderness.

Edited by Jonathan Lethem, this anthology gathers fiction and nonfiction united by memory loss, disorientation, and fractured identity. Haruki Murakami appears among contributors including Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, and Oliver Sacks.

A non-fiction work investigating the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack. Murakami interviews both the victims of the attack and members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, attempting to understand the psyche behind the violence and its impact on Japanese society.

K is in love with Sumire, an aspiring writer who falls for an older woman named Miu. When Sumire vanishes while on vacation in Greece, K investigates her disappearance, uncovering a story about unrequited desire and the possibility of crossing into another world.

Six short stories set in the months following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. While the characters are not directly caught in the disaster, the tremors reverberate through their lives, triggering personal upheavals and strange, quiet realizations.

This annual anthology gathers nearly four dozen fantasy and horror stories and poems, ranging from reworked fairy-tale material and magical realism to gothic and darker fiction. It also surveys the field through editorial overviews, coverage of comics, anime, and manga, and an honorable-mentions list.

An anthology of short stories about birthdays, selected and introduced by Murakami. The collection features works by authors like Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace, as well as one original story by Murakami himself.

A selection of excerpts and stories designed to introduce readers to Murakami's work. It includes chapters from novels like *The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle* and *Norwegian Wood*, along with standalone short fiction.

A fifteen-year-old boy named Kafka runs away from home to escape an Oedipal curse, while an elderly man who can talk to cats sets off on a parallel journey. Their paths converge in a dreamlike plot involving fish falling from the sky and a magical library.

Edited by Vendela Vida, this volume collects writer-to-writer conversations first published in The Believer, supplemented by previously unpublished interviews. The exchanges move beyond craft to subjects such as politics, philosophy, work, and the personal habits that shape a writing life.

A generous collection of twenty-four short stories covering a wide range of Murakami's career. The tales feature everything from a man traveling to Hawaii to a mirror that shows a reflection that refuses to look back.

A short story about a man named Tony Takitani who grows up isolated and later marries a woman obsessed with buying expensive clothes. After she dies, he is left alone with a room full of her designer dresses.

Set over the course of a single night in Tokyo, this novel follows Mari, a student reading in a Denny's, and her sister Eri, who is asleep and cannot wake up. Their stories intersect with a jazz trombonist and the dark underbelly of the city.

Edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler, this anthology gathers 26 food writers’ essays about cooking and eating when no one else is at the table. The pieces explore private rituals, comfort foods, and solo recipes, treating dining alone as both practical challenge and personal pleasure.

A collection of light essays and responses to reader questions, originally published on Murakami's website. He discusses everything from his daily routine and running habits to his thoughts on tofu and music.

This Japanese-language learning anthology presents essays by contemporary writers, including Haruki Murakami, in vertical Japanese text. Facing translations, notes, a learner’s dictionary, and audio recordings help readers work through natural prose rather than simplified practice passages.

A memoir reflecting on Murakami's life as a writer and an athlete. He discusses how training for marathons shapes his discipline and creative process, offering a rare, personal glimpse into the mind of the typically private author.

An audio anthology of unabridged short fiction, Great Modern Stories presents work by a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors. Its selections span modes including ghost story, domestic drama, mystery, and character study; William Boyd, Haruki Murakami, and Joanna Trollope are among the contributors.

This unabridged audio anthology brings together twenty-three short stories by a varied group of modern writers, read by a cast of performers. It includes Haruki Murakami’s “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful Morning,” alongside work by Helen Simpson, A. S. Byatt, and Fay Weldon.

A wide-ranging anthology of classic and modern short fiction selected for late-night reading. Its stories move through romance, loss, mystery, ghosts, friendship, renewal, and other human predicaments, with contributions from Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Woolf, and many others.

In 1984 Tokyo, a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange discrepancies in the world, while a math teacher named Tengo agrees to rewrite a disturbing novel. As their twin narratives unfold, they find themselves in a distorted reality with two moons in the sky.

This AQA GCSE English Literature anthology collects seven modern short stories for classroom study, including Haruki Murakami’s “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning.” Its selections support analysis of character, feelings, relationships, and narrative technique.

A dark, illustrated fable about a lonely boy who visits his local library, only to be imprisoned by an old man who wants to eat his brain. He plans his escape with the help of a sheep man and a mysterious girl.

A widowed actor hires a young female chauffeur to drive his Saab. As they spend time together in the car, he opens up about his late wife and the secrets she kept from him. This story was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film.

An anthology of love stories curated and translated into Japanese by Murakami, featuring Western authors like Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff. It also includes one original story by Murakami titled "The Independent Organ."

Tsukuru Tazaki has spent years haunted by the day his four best friends abruptly cut him out of their lives without explanation. Now an adult, he decides to visit each of them to uncover the truth behind their silence and heal his past.

In this set of essays, Murakami breaks his silence on the profession of writing. He discusses his path to becoming a novelist, his views on literary prizes, and the specific daily habits that allow him to sustain his creativity over decades.

In this Japanese collection, Haruki Murakami selects 473 responses from the thousands of questions readers sent to his limited-run advice website. The exchanges range across everyday concerns and larger reflections, accompanied by 51 illustrations by Masaru Fujimoto.

A series of deep conversations between Murakami and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa. They discuss the technical and emotional details of classical music, analyzing performances by Brahms, Beethoven, and Mahler.

A transcript of conversations between Murakami and the renowned Jungian psychologist Hayao Kawai. They discuss the connections between storytelling, the subconscious, and the healing power of narrative in a changing Japan.

A portrait painter discovers a hidden painting in an attic that unleashes a chain of mysterious events. To set things right, he must embark on a journey involving a ringing bell, a physical manifestation of an idea, and a descent into a metaphorical underworld.

A collection of short stories examining the lives of men who have lost women to other men, death, or indifference. Featuring the story "Drive My Car," these tales explore loneliness, isolation, and the quiet mysteries of human connection.

A richly illustrated reference book profiling more than 80 novelists, poets, and playwrights from the medieval period to the present. Through portraits, manuscripts, artifacts, and concise commentary, it relates each writer’s life to major works, techniques, themes, and cultural setting.

A short story about a waitress who has to work on her twentieth birthday. When she delivers dinner to the reclusive owner of the restaurant, he grants her a single wish, leading to a quiet but life-altering moment.

A beautifully designed diary and planner featuring quotes and artwork inspired by Murakami's novels. It serves as a companion for fans who want to incorporate his aesthetic and words into their daily planning.

A collection of eight stories told in the first person, blurring the line between memoir and fiction. The narrator reflects on youth, jazz, baseball, and strange encounters, including a talking monkey in a hot spring.

Murakami opens his closet to share his extensive collection of T-shirts. Through photos and short essays, he tells the stories behind the shirts, ranging from surf shop souvenirs to rare record store finds.

A full-color, travel-themed issue of MONKEY that brings together contemporary Japanese writing, fresh translations of earlier work, poetry, essays, and a graphic story. Haruki Murakami contributes the essay “Jogging in Southern Europe,” alongside work by writers including Mieko Kawakami and Aoko Matsuda.

The first volume of manga adaptations of Murakami's short stories. Visual artists reinterpret tales like "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and "The Seventh Man," bringing the author's surreal imagery to the page in graphic novel format.

A collection of classic short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, the father of the Japanese short story. This edition features an introduction by Haruki Murakami, who discusses Akutagawa's influence and legacy.

Volume two of the manga series, featuring adaptations of "The Second Bakery Attack," "Samsa in Love," and "Thailand." The graphic format adds a new visual dimension to these classic stories of hunger, transformation, and travel.

A full-length novel expanding on a story Murakami wrote in 1980. A man searches for a lost love who claimed her true self lived in a walled city where shadows must be severed. He eventually finds his way to that mysterious place.

The third volume of manga adaptations, focusing on the stories "Scheherazade" and "Sleep." These visual retellings capture the dreamlike, insomniac atmosphere central to Murakami's shorter fiction.

A colossal six-foot frog appears in the apartment of a bank employee named Katagiri. The frog asks for his help to fight a giant worm beneath the city and prevent a catastrophic earthquake in Tokyo.

Edited by Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman, this anthology brings together short fiction from writers across six continents, translated from many languages. The selection pairs established international authors with newer voices and includes Haruki Murakami’s “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo.”