Order of Haruki Murakami Books
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author of surrealist fiction. His work has won the Franz Kafka Prize and is often referred to as “Kafkaesque.” His style is more influenced by Western authors, although he maintains a sense of Japanese heritage throughout his works. Haruki learned English by reading crime novels that he purchased from second-hand stores.
Haruki Murakami became a published author in 1979 with the novel Kaze no uta o kike, which would be translated into Hear the Wind Sing in 1987. Below is a list of Haruki Murakami’s books in order of when they were published in English:
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Publication Order of The Rat Books
| Hear the Wind Sing | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pinball, 1973 | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Wild Sheep Chase | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dance, Dance, Dance | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Kishidancho Goroshi Books
| Killing Commendatore | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Norwegian Wood | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| South of the Border, West of the Sun | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sputnik Sweetheart | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kafka on the Shore | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After Dark | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 1Q84 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The City and Its Uncertain Walls | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Desire | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kangaroo Weather | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Strange Library | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Drive My Car | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Birthday Girl | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Elephant Vanishes | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After the Quake | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vintage Murakami | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Men Without Women | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Person Singular: Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I'm Likely to Find It | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murakami Diary 2009 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 村上さんのところ | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Novelist as a Vocation | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Absolutely on Music | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murakami 2020 Diary | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Haruki Murakami Synopsis: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is set in the year 1984. Aomame is in a taxi cab on the expressway, trying to carry out a mission. She must not talk about her assignment in public. While stuck in traffic, her driver has a proposal for her. She doesn’t have much choice but to agree, but now she feels as if she’s becoming detached from the real world. Her next job will have her meeting the founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is living an average, everyday life but wants to become a writer. He stumbles into a strange disturbance that develops over a literary prize. While Aomame and Tengo affect eachother in different ways, their paths come closer to crossing. Soon, they’ll realize that each one needs the other, but will they ever meet in the real world?
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