This is the most complete list of Haruki Murakami’s free-to-read books and short stories that have been officially made available in English.
All discovered through the magic of Google Search.
As you’ve probably seen with Scribd, Reddit, and similar file-sharing sites, search results can include many types of pages.
Not every listing shown on a Google results page represents copyrighted content.
I’m simply pointing out what appears in search, and no links, files, or downloads are provided here.
Collected together, this spans more than twenty-five years of Murakami’s work in English translation.
From his first English translated “Pinball, 1973” (1985) right up to Murukami 2024 long-awaited novel, “The City And Its Uncertain Walls”, again translated by Philip Gabriel.
If you are interested in writing, you should read Murukami new book “Novelist As A Vocation” (職業としての小説家) which is listed below under Non-Fictions.
Yes, you can find the free 2014 illustrated short novel for children, “The Strange Library” (ふしぎな図書館) translated into English by Ted Goossen in the list below too.
Remember to check out Murakami’s 2021 November book “Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love”.
You get to view and read the stories about his extensive and interesting T-shirt collection.
If you a fan of this popular Japanese writer or even just someone who has just discovered and love Murakami’s work, then read on…
Haruki Murakami Free Books
I’ve spent some time digging through the internet with the help of Google Search.
Along the way, I uncovered a surprising number of freely available Haruki Murakami short stories, novels, essays, and non-fiction pieces.
Yes, these Murakami works can all be found online through Google’s search results — that’s how most people come across them.
I’m simply highlighting where these items appear in the Google search results pages (SERPs).
However, I do not endorse or encourage the unauthorized downloading or distribution of copyrighted material.
You can also try looking for any of the books from Z-Library or Anna’s Archive.
The City And Its Uncertain Walls
Fans of Haruki Murakami (harukisuto) be ready to lost in his new mysterious labyrinthine city with high walls.
I am talking about his novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” (街とその不確かな壁, Machi to Sono Futashikana Kabe).
Back in April 13, 2023, he released this novel in Japanese language.
This three-part story features the narrator into a city with high walls, seeking the “true self” of a crush.
Part one of the book is taken from his past story of the same title, published in the September 1980 issue of the Japanese monthly literary magazine “Bungakukai”.
You can get the 2024 free English translation of “The City And Its Uncertain Walls” novel right below.
Japanese Writer Haruki Murakami
Even if you’ve never read any of Haruki Murakami’s short stories or novels, you’ve likely heard his name.
You may also have seen it prominently displayed in bookstores, or on films and stage plays adapted from his work.
Murakami’s books have been bestsellers in Japan and across the world.
Originally written in Japanese, his works have been translated into more than 50 languages, including English, French, Thai, Spanish, Hebrew, Latvian, Turkish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Czech, Russian, and Catalan.
It was his first realistic novel, “Norwegian Wood“, which transformed him into a literary megastar.
Norwegian Wood Full Film Free
This 1987 million-seller was adapted into a Japanese -language movie, directed by Vietnamese-born French Tran Anh Hung.
To watch this free full film, type: Norwegian Wood full film free in Google Search.
I think it is available in both YouTube and Dailymotion site.
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I have also include some of Murakami’s non-fictions, essays and travel writings in this collection.
Now, check out the massive list of Haruki Murakami free books and short stories in English translation:
Haruki Murakami Novels List:
Hear The Wind Sing By Haruki Murakami
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Pinball, 1973 By Haruki Murakami
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Hear The Wind/Pinball, 1973 By Haruki Murakami
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A Wild Sheep Chase By Haruki Murakami
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World By Haruki Murakami
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Norwegian Wood By Haruki Murakami
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Dance Dance Dance By Haruki Murakami
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South Of The Border, West Of The Sun By Haruki Murakami
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle By Haruki Murakami
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Sputnik Sweetheart By Haruki Murakami
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Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami
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After Dark By Haruki Murakami
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1Q84: Book 1 & 2 By Haruki Murakami
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1Q84: Book 3 By Haruki Murakami
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1Q84: Book 1, 2 & 3 By Haruki Murakami
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage By Haruki Murakami
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Killing Commendatore By Haruki Murakami
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First Person Singular Stories By Haruki Murakami
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NOTE: It is also available in Z-Library.
Haruki Murakami Short Stories Free Collections:
- The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday’s Women
- The Second Bakery Attack
- The Kangaroo Communiqué
- On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Sleep - The Fall Of The Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler’s Invasion Of Poland, And The Realm Of Raging Winds
Lederhosen - Barn Burning
- The Little Green Monster
- Family Affair
- A Window
- TV People
- A Slow Boat to China
- The Dancing Dwarf
- The Last Lawn of the Afternoon
- The Silence
- The Elephant Vanishes
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After The Quake:
- UFO In Kushiro
- Landscape With Flatiron
- All God’s Children Can Dance
- Thailand
- Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
- Honey Pie
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman:
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Birthday Girl
- New York Mining Disaster
- Airplane: Or, How He Talked To Himself As If Reciting Poetry
- The Mirror
- A Folklore For My Generation: A Pre-History Of Late-Stage
- Capitalism
- Hunting Knife
- A Perfect Day For Kangaroos
- Dabchick
- Man-Eating Cats
- A Poor Aunt Story
- Nausea 1979
- The Seventh Man
- The Year Of Spaghetti
- Tony Takitani
- The Rise And Fall Of Sharpie Cakes
- The Ice Man
- Crabs
- Firefly
- Chance Traveler
- Hanalei Bay
- Where I’m Likely To Find It
- The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day
- A Shinagawa Monkey
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Men Without Women:
- Drive My Car
- Yesterday
- An Independent Organ
- Scheherazade
- Kino
- Samsa In Love
- Men Without Women
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NOTE: There is another collection of short stories book with the same title “Men Without Women” by American author Ernest Hemingway.
This 1927 volume by Hemingway consists of 14 stories about bullfighting, prizefighting, infidelity, divorce, and death.
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Vintage Murakami
- Chapter One – from Norwegian Wood
- Barn Burning
- Shizuko Akashi – Ii-yu-nii-an [Disneyland]
- Honey Pie
- Lieutenant Mamiya’s Long Story: Part I – From THE Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Lieutenant Mamiya’s Long Story: Part II – From THE Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Ice Man
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Spider Monkey Of The Night:
I
- Horn
- Pencil Sharpner – Or, The Serendipity Of Watanabe Noboru, Part I
- Julio Iglesias
- Time Machine – Or, The Serendipity Of Watanabe Noboru, Part II
- Croquettes
- Playing Cards
- Newspaper
- Donutization
- Antithesis
- Eels
- Takayama Noriko-san and my Sexual Desire
- Octopus
- A Raid By The Old Man Mushikubo
- Spanner
- Donuts, Again
II
- Spider-monkey At Night
- Advertisement For Jazz Cafe In Kokubunji A Long Time Ago
- The World Where Horses Sell Tickets
- Bangkok Surprise
- Beer
- Proverbs
- Structurism
- A Radish Grater
- Message Phone
- Stockings
- Milk
- Good News
- High Efficient Stilts
- Zoo
- The India Salesman
- Back Of Ceiling
- Mosho Mosho
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Nicol, the Liar
- Deep Red Mustard
- About Night Whistle, or About Effect Of Tale
- Back
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Desire: Haruki Murakami Vintage Minis
Selected from Haruki’s Murakami’s short story collections “The Elephant Vanishes”, “Blind Willow Sleeping Woman”, and “Men Without Women”.
- The Second Bakery Attack
- On seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
- Birthday Girl
- Samsa In Love
- A Folklore for My Generation:
A Prehistory of Late-Stage Capitalism
Find it in: Z-Library.
Three German Fantasies
Published in The Review of Contemporary Fiction (June 22, 2002)
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Free Murakami Short Stories:
Most of these stories are published in The New Yorker, and they are included in Murukami’s short stories collections.
Year Of Spaghetti
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The Twins And The Sunken Continent
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Lexington Ghosts
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Zombie
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Man-eating Cats
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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All God’s Children Can Dance
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Kino
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The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day
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The Folklore Of Our Times
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Where I’m Likely To Find It
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Town Of Cats
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The Wind Cave
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The Zoo Attack
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Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
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New York Mining Disaster
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Landscape With Flatiron
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Birthday Girl
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Hunting Knife
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Airplane
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Ice Man
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A Shinagawa Monkey
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Confessions Of A Shinagawa Monkey
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Cream
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Honey Pie
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With The Beatles
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A Poor Aunt Story
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A Perfect Day For Kangaroos
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The Vampire Cabbie
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Her Town, Her Sheep
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Her Little Dog In The Ground
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On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman One Fine April Morning (translated by Kevin Flanagan and Tamotsu Omi)
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Sleepy
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Sleep
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Mirror
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The Girl from Ipanema, 1963/1982
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A Window/Do You Like Burt Bacharach?
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Thirty-Two-Year-Old Day Tripper
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The Rise And Fall Of The Tongariyaki
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Tony Takitani
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Spider Monkey Of The Night
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The Sea Lion Festival
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On Part-time Jobs
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Beer At The Soba Shop
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Concerning Summer
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Bakery Attack
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Second Bakery Attack
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Another Way To Die
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Abandoning A Cat: Memories Of My Father
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Creta Kano
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Hotel Lobby Oysters
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The Sheep Man’s Christmas
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Samsa In Love
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Yesterday
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A Walk To Kobe
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Scheherazade
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U.F.O. In Kushiro
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The Kingdom That Failed
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Kaho
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Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions In The New Yorker
Read Haruki Murakami discussing his story “Kaho” with Deborah Treisman in “This Week In Fiction” of The New Yorker website.
Illustrated Novella:
The Strange Library By Haruki Murakami
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Non-Fictions:
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack And The Japanese Psyche By Haruki Murakami
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
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Absolutely On Music Conversations With Seiji Ozwa By Haruki Murukami
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love By Haruki Murakami
Get it from: Z-Library or Anna’s Archive.
Novelist As A Vocation By Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami Essays:
A Walk To Kobe By Haruki Murakami
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Jazz Messenger By Haruki Murakami
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The Running Novelist By Haruki Murakami
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Boston, From One Citizen Of The World Who Calls Himself A Runner By Haruki Murakami
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No Bringing In A Japanese Lunch With A Pickled Plum On Rice By Haruki Murakami
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The Birth Of My Kitchen Table Fiction By Haruki Murakami
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The Novelist In Wartime By Haruki Murakami
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Literary Comrades By Haruki Murakami
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A Long Way From The Stuffed Cabbage By Haruki Murakami
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Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova By Haruki Murakami
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My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty By Haruki Murakami
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Three Short Essays On Jazz By Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami Travel Writings:
Farewell, Real World By Haruki Murakami
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From Daphne To Karie By Haruki Murakami
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From Karie To Stavronikta By Haruki Murakami
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What Kind Of World Is Athos? By Haruki Murakami
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