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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.

Have read city and it's uncertain walls. Now i have these two books , which one to start ?

Haruki murakami's wild sheep chase!!!.

While this book had a major build up to why there is a sheep chase it did not have a good enough climax. The author explained the importance of sheep in one paragraph and very plainly. In that sense this book could be considered simple and plain. This book did not have a grip on me nor did it reward my persistence.

Somebody needs to explain to me why was this book written!!! Or has it lost its meaning in translation!!. Has anyone read it in Japanese itself and finds it any different? Kindly weigh on this!!

Hey guys, what's your top 3?
Here's mine:

1. Toni Takitani
2. Lederhosen
3. Second Bakery Attack

I've only read 8 so far and this time I told myself that I'm really gonna finish his short story compilations. Excited to enjoy and have new favorites!!

It was okay. I'd give it a solid 6/10. Decent story, but it didn't hit as hard as some of his other books (I've read a huge number of his books at this point). The resolution was okay, but it lacked a punch, if you know what I mean.

I don't know if it really needed to be 700+ pages considering it didn't really resolve what happened in the prologue... I mean, it revisited it briefly in the psychological parallel world, but I still don't really know why that was fully necessary considering Mariye just walked out of the house, lol. Why couldn't the Commendatore just tell her when it was time to leave?

By about page 500, I was kinda getting ready for some action.

Also, this book ends way too many sentences with prepositions, and I didn't really need to hear about Mariye's breasts every few pages.

I enjoyed it, it is worth reading, but maybe not my favorite by this author.

Just finished Tales of Kaho. What a pleasure it was!

Hi people, I'm reading Murakami's Dance, Dance, Dance and I'm hardly enjoying it at all. I have about 110 pages left to finish it, is it worth reading to the end? Because I'm really thinking about to give up

For real tho, why does an English release always take so long?