Murakami reading list: Books mentioned in Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Personally, I really like Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I think its story is compact and fast-paced. The characters are quirky and omoshiroi. How can I forget the memorable death scene in the car with Bob Dylan in the background?

Although Murakami mentioned Russian writers like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in most of his book. He revealed that he like Turgenev’s storytelling in this book.

Also, the remark of the librarian about W. Somerset Maugham: “I like W. Somerset Maugham. He’s not spectacular but he’s very readable. I’ll rather have that, than the other way around.” Don’t you agree?

Here are the book titles mentioned in the wonderful Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

• The Book of Imaginary Beings – Jorge Luis Borges (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• Rudin – Ivan Turgenev (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Torrents of Spring – Ivan Turgenev (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Red and the Black – Stendahl (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• Carterhouse of Parma – Stendahl (Bookdepository)
• The Chouans – Honore Balzac (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• L’Etranger (The Stranger) – Albert Camus (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Razor’s Edge – Somerset Maugham (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Third Man – Graham Greene (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum (Amazon, Bookdepository)
• The Greening of America – Charles A. Reich (Amazon)
• Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad (Amazon, Bookdepository)

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