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:
Publication Order of The Rat Books
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Hear the Wind Sing |
(1979) |
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Pinball, 1973 |
(1980) |
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A Wild Sheep Chase |
(1982) |
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Dance, Dance, Dance |
(1988) |
Publication Order of Kishidancho Goroshi Books
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Killing Commendatore |
(2017) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World |
(1985) |
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Norwegian Wood |
(1987) |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
(1997) |
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South of the Border, West of the Sun |
(1999) |
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Sputnik Sweetheart |
(2001) |
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Kafka on the Shore |
(2005) |
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After Dark |
(2007) |
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1Q84 |
(2011) |
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage |
(2014) |
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls |
(2024) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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Desire |
(1984) |
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Kangaroo Weather |
(1986) |
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The Strange Library |
(2012) |
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Drive My Car |
(2013) |
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Birthday Girl |
(2019) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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The Elephant Vanishes |
(1993) |
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After the Quake |
(2002) |
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Vintage Murakami |
(2004) |
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman |
(2006) |
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Men Without Women |
(2017) |
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First Person Singular: Stories |
(2020) |
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories |
(2023) |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
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Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, The Seventh Man, Birthday Girl, Where I’m Likely to Find It |
(2023) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche |
(2000) |
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running |
(2008) |
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Murakami Diary 2009 |
(2008) |
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村上さんのところ |
(2015) |
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Novelist as a Vocation |
(2015) |
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Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai |
(2016) |
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Absolutely on Music |
(2016) |
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Murakami 2020 Diary |
(2019) |
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection |
(1991) |
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Fourth Annual Collection |
(1991) |
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The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark |
(2000) |
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia |
(2000) |
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40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology |
(2000) |
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Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection |
(2003) |
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Birthday Stories |
(2004) |
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers |
(2005) |
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone |
(2007) |
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Read Real Japanese Essays |
(2008) |
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Great Modern Stories |
(2009) |
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Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection |
(2009) |
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Stories to Get You Through the Night |
(2010) |
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Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature |
(2011) |
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AQA GCSE Anthology Sunlight on the Grass |
(2012) |
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Ten Selected Love Stories |
(2013) |
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Freeman’s: Arrival |
(2015) |
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Writers: Their Lives and Works |
(2018) |