Haruki Murakami masterfully blends American and Japanese cultures in his stories, creating an intriguing concoction that seems both familiar and foreign. He crafts a unique literary atmosphere by infusing American elements such as jazz, Western literature, and popular culture with the mystique and depth inherent in Japanese tradition.

Checklist

• Fiction

  • 1979 — Hear the Wind Sing (Rat Triology 1)

  • 1980 — Pinball, 1973 (Rat Triology 2)

  • 1982 — A Wild Sheep Chase (Rat Triology 3)

  • 1985 — Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • 1987 — Norwegian Wood

  • 1988 — Dance Dance Dance (Post Rat)

  • 1992 — South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • 1995 — The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • 1999 - Sputnik Sweetheart (PTBR)

  • 2002 — Kafka on the Shore

  • 2004 — After Dark

  • 2008 - Strange Library

  • 2010 — 1Q84 (PTBR)

  • 2013 — Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

  • 2017 — Killing Commendatore

• Short Stories

  • 2000 - After the Quake

  • 2005 - The Elephant Vanishes (PTBR)

  • 2009 - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

  • 2014 - Men Without Woman (PTBR)

  • 2021 - First Person Singular: Stories

• Non Fiction

  • 1997 - Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

  • 2007 - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running