Murakami names authors like Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, and Richard Brautigan as inspirations, and says his current favorite authors include Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Dag Solstad. Murakami has received numerous awards as an author, including the World Fantasy Award, the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.Īs a magical realism author, his fiction tends to stretch across more than one genre at a time, including the supernatural, fantasy, science fiction, and crime fiction. His writings are really popular all over, translated from their original Japanese into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies around the world. Haruki Murakami has published more than a dozen novels, plus several short-story collections and nonfiction stuff. Below are 13 titles (in chronological order) worth checking out… About the author While we’re waiting, I thought I’d spotlight several of Murakami’s previous books.

Watch for an English translation of The City And Its Uncertain Walls later in the year. “It took me almost three years to finish.” “I started writing this novel in early March 2020, when the coronavirus started raging in Japan,” Murakami says. The City And Its Uncertain Walls follows a character within a walled city and shows how they experience this location throughout the various stages of their life. They lined up outside bookstores to get a copy of his new novel, The City And Its Uncertain Walls-a 661-page book(!) written during the pandemic lockdown(!). With his first novel in six years, best-selling and award-winning magical realism author Haruki Murakami seems as popular as ever with fans in Japan.

“The more I try to write about reality in a realistic way,” the author says, “the more the unreal world invariably emerges.” With his new book on the way, we take a look at Haruki Murakami’s books-his best books, most important books, and best-selling books…

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