Unabridged Stories

Murakami Reading List

Today would be be start of a project to read all of Murakami's books in chronological order. Why do this? Because.


  1. Hear the Wind Sing (1979)
  2. Pinball, 1973 (1980)
  3. A Wild Sheep Chase (1982)
  4. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
  5. Norwegian Wood (1987)
  6. Dance Dance Dance (1988)
  7. South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992)
  8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–1995)
  9. Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai (1996)
  10. Underground (1997)
  11. The Place That Was Promised (1998)
  12. Sputnik Sweetheart (1999)
  13. After the Quake (2000)
  14. Kafka on the Shore (2002)
  15. Birthday Stories (2002)
  16. After Dark (2004)
  17. The Strange Library (2005)
  18. The Elephant Vanishes (2005)
  19. Tokyo Kitanshu (2005)
  20. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007)
  21. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2006)
  22. 1Q84 (2009–2010)
  23. Absolutely on Music (2011)
  24. Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)
  25. Men Without Women (2014)
  26. Novelist as a Vocation (2015)
  27. Killing Commendatore (2017)
  28. Abandoning a Cat (2019)
  29. Murakami T (2020)
  30. First Person Singular (2020)
  31. The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023)