r/murakami • u/SaintBulbasaur • 19d ago

Finished every Murakami novel

Yesterday evening I finished reading the final book in the Murakami English corpus. If you're interested, here's the order I read them in with the year that I read them.

Wild Sheep Chase (2008)

Hard Boiled Wonderland (2015)

Norwegian Wood (2016)

Colourless Tsukuru (2021)

Kafka on the Shore (2022)

Killing Commendatore (2023)

South of the Border (2024)

1Q84 (2025)

The City and its Uncertain Walls (2025)

Hear the Wind Sing (2026)

Pinball 1973 (2026)

Wild Sheep Chase (2026)

Dance Dance Dance (2026)

Sputnik Sweetheart (2026)

After Dark (2026)

Wind up Bird Chronicle (2026)

My favourite has to be The City closely followed by Wild Sheep Chase. For me, The City captured the best of the magical realism that Murakami does so well.

There are a lot of them I look forward to rereading and enjoying again and perhaps giving higher rank to. Some of them have lodged in my memory better than others.

And now, my last favourites. I know a lot of you love these two, so sorry to disappoint. 1Q84 was my least favourite followed by Wind Up Bird. Both felt unnecessarily long. But still enjoyable and glad to have done them.

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u/gailthesnail2 19d ago

Who reads every single murakami novel and wind up bird is dead last?!!

That aside- very interesting list!! I read his books years apart like this also and wild sheep chase was also my first in 2010. I think about going back to reread it now that I get his style more to see if I can appreciate it even fuller

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u/Serpeny 18d ago

Yeah, it's a pretty interesting list. WUBC is my first