Haruki Murakami Books in Order

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.