Have you read Murakami?

Haruki Murakami is one of my favourite authors.

The last book I read from him was Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2014). A quote I have copied into my journal: It hurt to see that she no longer had that burning something she used to have. That what had been remarkable about her had vanished. That the special something would no longer be able to move me the way it used to (p. 211).

 My first Murakami book was After Dark (2007) as per recommended by my grade 12 English teacher.

 I have read Norwegian Wood* (2000), Kafka on the Shore (2005), Sputnik Sweetheart* (2001), 1Q84 (2011), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997), and South of the Border, West of the Sun* (2000).

 I had a Murakami quote cut out of old magazines and taped to my bedroom wall when I was at university. From Sputnik Sweetheart, the quote was: Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

My next Murakami book will be A Wild Sheep Chase (1989).

 *Denotes my favourite Murakami novels.