TIER RANKING MURAKAMI NOVELS 

South of the Border is absolutely underrated-easily one of my top 3 Murakami so far!

Love Love Love how you’re creating new more videos, also can’t wait for the Murakami’s marathon 😍😍

I'm in awe. How do you make so many good videos so frequently!! I honestly love your reading taste

South of the Border is such an amazing book, definitely needs more recognition. Thank you for this video :D

I feel the same about Norwegian Wood! I read it in like one sitting cause I was so invested and then absolutely forgot everything that happened.

Yes!! I love that you did that!

this was such a good video idea! would love to see this on any other author's you've read everything from :)

I genuinely appreciate your Murakami related videos. Your comments on each book exhibits your deep grasp on his world. As a Japanese. I would love to dig into the things that have frequent mentions in Murakami’s books, a well, goats, Soviet Union, as such…

loved this video!

Kate I don’t even read haruki marukami and I watched the whole thing bc I love tier list videos lmao

Dance Dance Dance is one of my favorites. tbh i wish you'd done this not objectively but subjectively but still good vid

My favorite book so far is After dark, I love this book so much and I’m probably gonna try to read it in one night

I genuinely loved wind and pinball. I enjoyed wind a lot more, it was such a nostalgic sort of feeling and I really loved it.

i know that you're prioritizing to reread kafka on the shore over dance dance dance upon this marathon, but honestly i would like to see if your perception has changed on dance dance dance! it's been sooo long since your review on that. i've read a wild sheep chase a couple of months ago. i'm still very undecided whether i'd like to 'continue' the following story of the rat series or not 😬

Sputnik was the first murakami book I read and I really enjoyed it. Currently reading A wild sheep chase

I just read Hear the Wind Sing and i hardcore enjoyed it! I think it’s a great book just to get a taste of Murakami because it’s not too weird but it has that Murakami charm :)

1Q84 and hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world are S tier for me. For me these are his most complex works and I feel that when he delves into the more speculative side of writing he does his best work and !Q*$ and hard-boiled have the perfect balance of fantastical and speculative

1Q84 and wind-up bird chronicles for the win. Even I would put them into S tier along with HBWTEW. I really wish more people would pick up 1Q84 instead of Norwegian woods...

I only read three of them, I'd say 1q84 is a another level. My number two is Kafka on the shore, and the wind up bird chronicles is my number three. They're all very very good

Are 1Q84 and Kafka By The Shore good? I am trying to decide what to by

A murakami fan and an astro fan?? Omg this combo

It’s not a classic, but for a change of pace I would recommend “Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche” which is a collection of interviews conducted by Murakami with survivors of the Sarin gas attack on the Japanese subway, he also interviews members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the attack. That book never gets any love, but it’s worth checking out.

I'm glad you enjoyed 1q84. I have read all of his works in the past year since quarantine, but this was BY FAR my least favorite. I don't think I've ever had so much repetition in a single novel, with such bland and static characters. Maybe the fact the unyielding plot never gave any significant answers wouldn't have bothered me in a 400-page novel, but being close to 1000, it kind of destroyed my mind. I felt like i was rotting by the end of it. Tengo made things especially difficult. He was even more frustrating than Kafka, even though I still love that book. I was very disappointed that no answers were given about the little people, the cult, air chrysalis, and more. I can't believe that pretty much no action occurred in the third book, except the murder of the Ushikawa character which was completely uncalled for. The best part of the book was the conversation that green peas had with the leader. Definitely weaker than Colorless Tsukuro and Norwegian wood imo. Bringing those up because it seems that you didn't enjoy them as much.

saw the astro lightstick in the background and knew i could trust you

Mine are: S - After Dark; A Wild Sheep Chase; Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World A - Kafka on the Shore; Colorless Tzukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage; South of the Border, West of the Sun; Killing Commendatore B - Hear the Wind Sing; Norwegian Wood C - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; Dance Dance Dance D - Pinball, 1973

lol i started reading murakami with sputnik sweetheart

Can you make a video about South of the Border? I read it and don't know what you saw in it

Heyyy, so you don't like Norwegian wood as you find this love story boring. But what love-story book will you recommend? I just really want to read a love story now :) Look forward to your reply！

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is an extremely intelligent book.

Currently reading South of the border here and i enjoy it... And yhea sputnik is sooo hard to read I don't enjoy it as well..

Kate 5 days ago: Kafka on the Shore - EASY A Kate now: oh.

South of the Border was my first Murakami novel and I was instantly hooked. Went straight to 1Q84 after. S-1Q84, Wind up bird, Kafka A- Killing C., Norwegian Wood, Hard-Boiled, South of the Border B- Colorless, After Dark, Sputnik C-Wild Sheep, Dance Dance D- Wind/Pinball

1Q84 absolutely floored me when I read it years ago. Killing Commendatore feels very 'fan service' which I'm not complaining at all, it has all the classic Murakami quirks. I might need to give After Dark another try, I was really bored by it during my first read.

Wind up bird is the best Murakami :)

colorless #1

🍄Is it necessary to read Orwell's 1984 first before 1Q84? Or nah...🍊

You should be putting these books in the tier YOU would put them in. Not what every other list or blog ranks them as. You’re viewers want to see YOUR ranking. Should have but Norwegian wood in C…

Hi Kate. Just finished reading Sputnik Sweetheart and I really think you should reconsider this book. That you don’t like it can mean one of these two things, in my opinion: 1. The English translation sucks, 2. You didn’t get the beauty of it. Okay let’s add a third: I’m insane and don’t know what I’m talking about. Either way, I think you should reconsider.

I appreciate all the fans of HM. I’ve read him from when hard boiled 1sr came out and it’s a S. And don’t care about the whiners -Killing Commendatore is also S it was a return to form from the D Colorless and C 1Q84 and that’s a gift to me it’s also a D don’t understand except maybe people like to say that they’ve read this over blown way way way……..way too long novel. In fact not gonna hold punches 1Q84 is the worst and a lousy book.

You could have made this video way shorter than this with better communication skills

Marry me. 😊