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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.

If you're normally a longboarder, what board do you surf when the surf gets big, like overhead big. I've usually just carried on on my longboard, but I've had a few challenging sessions, especially when it's steep, and I'm getting a bit older so getting less certain about it. So I'm wondering what other options there might be without going for a short board. What do you surf in big waves?