Haruki Murakami best books, ranked
Haruki Murakami — 2 titles in the rankings, first published between 1994 and 2010. They average 7.7, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages. One series has a reading order worth keeping to.
Editor’s note Japan’s most widely read novelist, whose dreamlike books mix loneliness, jazz, cats, wells and quietly impossible events. 1Q84, a long novel set in a 1984 Tokyo where two moons appear in the sky, is his most read book here but rates lower; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, about a man searching for his missing wife and cat, rates higher and is a better place to start. Most of his other books still have too few ratings here to rank.
- Ranked titles
- 2 books
- Average score
- 7.7
- Total ratings
- 953
- First published
- 1994–2010
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Books by Haruki Murakami
Series by Haruki Murakami
Reading order of Haruki Murakami's series
1 series with a set order — each one opens on the volume to read first.
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Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1979Hear the Wind Sing
- 1980Pinball, 1973
- 1982A Wild Sheep Chase
- 1983中国行きのスロウ・ボート
- 1985Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1986The Second Bakery Attack
- 1987Norwegian Wood
- 1988Dance Dance Dance
- 1990TVピープル
- 1992South of the Border, West of the Sun
- 1993On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
- 1993The Elephant Vanishes
- 1997Ritratti in jazz
- 1999Sputnik Sweetheart
- 2000After the Quake
- 2000Underground
- 2002Kafka on the Shore
- 2002Birthday Stories
- 2004After Dark
- 2005The Strange Library
- 2006Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- 2007What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- 2008Uten Enten
- 20091Q84 Book 1
- 20091Q84 Book 2
- 20101Q84 Book 3
- 2011おおきなかぶ、むずかしいアボカド 村上ラヂオ2
- 2013Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- 2014Men Without Women
- 2017Killing Commendatore
- 2019Abandoning a Cat
- 2020First Person Singular
- 2021Murakami T
- 2023The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- Wind/Pinball
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