/lit/ - Literature

>>9113849
I strongly recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World if you like 1q84. After HBW you have a few options
The Rat Trilogy (Wind/Pinball/WSC)
Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Norwegian Wood

These are his best books. If you're 14 or you like YA you can add Kafka on the Shore to the list.

>>7958185
I don't think /lit/ hates him. The consensus seems to be that he's a decent writer who is overhyped by his fans and by people who don't read much.

Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami. Some will probably see it as edgy college student bullshit. It was essentially about my state of mind and character at the time of me reading it though. Had no job, running out of money to stay in school, was perpetually in a state of boredom, and all of this was compounded by my thinking that school, a career, and the popular definition of adulthood might not be for me and how much I resented everyone in my past who forced this path on myself and my peers.